How can I solve the problem with the encoding in the request?

Question

SQL

Good afternoon. Have a request

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT `article`) FROM table1 WHERE size LIKE 'Р%'

The problem is that the data in the size field is in this form

["\u042f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\"]

Because of this, the condition does not work.
Tried to assign characters in the same form

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT `article`) FROM table1 WHERE size LIKE '\u042f%'

, but unfortunately only works with one character. If I add another one, it returns 0

Answer 1

for good, of course, it is worth transcoding to normal text.
but you can search this way, you just need to escape the slashes -LIKE '\\\\u042f\\\\u0440%'