diff --git a/bindings/python/py_src/tokenizers/implementations/char_level_bpe.py b/bindings/python/py_src/tokenizers/implementations/char_level_bpe.py
index 864892de..29ca5977 100644
--- a/bindings/python/py_src/tokenizers/implementations/char_level_bpe.py
+++ b/bindings/python/py_src/tokenizers/implementations/char_level_bpe.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class CharBPETokenizer(BaseTokenizer):
                 )
             )
         else:
-            tokenizer = Tokenizer(BPE())
+            tokenizer = Tokenizer(BPE(unk_token=str(unk_token), dropout=dropout, end_of_word_suffix=suffix))
 
         if tokenizer.token_to_id(str(unk_token)) is not None:
             tokenizer.add_special_tokens([str(unk_token)])