diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c1d82265940..913c5e2deeb 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1822,6 +1822,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "icu_provider",
  "icu_segmenter_data",
  "itertools 0.14.0",
+ "ndarray",
  "potential_utf",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
diff --git a/components/segmenter/Cargo.toml b/components/segmenter/Cargo.toml
index 84f97ca05aa..b7819163234 100644
--- a/components/segmenter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/components/segmenter/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ icu_locale = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 icu = { path = "../../components/icu", default-features = false }
 icu_properties = { path = "../properties", features = ["compiled_data"] }
 itertools = { workspace = true }
+ndarray = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 
@@ -64,3 +65,7 @@ harness = false
 [[test]]
 name = "complex_word"
 required-features = ["auto"]
+
+[[test]]
+name = "cnn"
+required-features = []
diff --git a/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/helper.rs b/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/helper.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6287010fa7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/helper.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// This file is part of ICU4X. For terms of use, please see the file
+// called LICENSE at the top level of the ICU4X source tree
+// (online at: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/blob/main/LICENSE ).
+
+use ndarray::array;
+
+pub fn get_shape() -> Vec<usize> {
+    let a1 = array![1, 2, 3, 4];
+    a1.shape().to_vec()
+}
diff --git a/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/main.rs b/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..62fb742a905
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+// This file is part of ICU4X. For terms of use, please see the file
+// called LICENSE at the top level of the ICU4X source tree
+// (online at: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/blob/main/LICENSE ).
+
+use serde::Deserialize;
+
+mod helper;
+
+static JSON_STR: &str = include_str!("sample.json");
+
+#[test]
+fn hello_world() {
+    println!("hello world");
+    assert_eq!(helper::get_shape(), vec![4]);
+}
+
+#[derive(Deserialize)]
+struct JsonStruct {
+    key: String,
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_json() {
+    let json_obj: JsonStruct = serde_json::from_str(JSON_STR).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(json_obj.key, "value");
+}
diff --git a/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/sample.json b/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/sample.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a977d991bb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/segmenter/tests/cnn/sample.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+    "key": "value"
+}
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