A recursive splitter is the classic Chunking strategy that breaks a document on paragraph boundaries first, then sentences, then whitespace, and finally characters until each piece fits the target size. Popularized by LangChain in late 2022, it's cheap and usually produces sensible results, which is why it's the default first choice. It has no real "intelligence" — it doesn't understand semantics — yet a well-tuned recursive splitter covers the baseline needs of most RAG applications. For something smarter, teams reach for Semantic Chunking.
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Glossary · Intermediate · 2022
Recursive Splitter
A practical chunking strategy that splits documents on coarse separators first, then progressively finer ones.
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