diff --git a/sync_diff_inspector/utils/utils.go b/sync_diff_inspector/utils/utils.go
index ed3e6b918..d951c9815 100644
--- a/sync_diff_inspector/utils/utils.go
+++ b/sync_diff_inspector/utils/utils.go
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	"github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter"
 	"github.com/pingcap/errors"
@@ -887,7 +888,7 @@ NEXTROW:
 			if col == nil {
 				continue NEXTROW
 			}
-			randomValue[i] = string(col)
+			randomValue[i] = TruncateInvalidUTF8(string(col))
 		}
 		randomValues = append(randomValues, randomValue)
 	}
@@ -895,6 +896,19 @@ NEXTROW:
 	return randomValues, errors.Trace(rows.Err())
 }
 
+// TruncateInvalidUTF8 truncates the string to the last valid UTF-8 character.
+// If the string is valid UTF-8, it returns the original string.
+func TruncateInvalidUTF8(s string) string {
+	for i := 0; i < len(s); {
+		r, size := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(s[i:])
+		if r == utf8.RuneError && size == 1 {
+			return s[:i]
+		}
+		i += size
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
 // ResetColumns removes index from `tableInfo.Indices`, whose columns appear in `columns`.
 // And removes column from `tableInfo.Columns`, which appears in `columns`.
 // And initializes the offset of the column of each index to new `tableInfo.Columns`.
diff --git a/sync_diff_inspector/utils/utils_test.go b/sync_diff_inspector/utils/utils_test.go
index ea6aba6bd..40ad3aa22 100644
--- a/sync_diff_inspector/utils/utils_test.go
+++ b/sync_diff_inspector/utils/utils_test.go
@@ -686,3 +686,23 @@ func TestCompareBlob(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func TestTruncateInvalidUTF8(t *testing.T) {
+	testCases := []struct {
+		input    string
+		expected string
+	}{
+		{"", ""},
+		{"test", "test"},
+		{"abc\xffdef", "abc"},
+		{"\xffabc", ""},
+		{"a\xc3\x28", "a"},
+		{"ab\xe2\x82\x28", "ab"},
+		{"\xed\xa0\x80", ""},
+		{"abc\xe2\x28", "abc"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		got := TruncateInvalidUTF8(tc.input)
+		require.Equal(t, got, tc.expected, "input: %s", tc.input)
+	}
+}