diff --git a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
index d36d4ce95..7a25af0b3 100644
--- a/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
+++ b/docs/api-guide/filtering.md
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ The search behavior may be specified by prefixing field names in `search_fields`
 | `$`    | `iregex`      | Regex search.      |
 | `@`    | `search`      | Full-text search (Currently only supported Django's [PostgreSQL backend][postgres-search]). |
 | None   | `icontains`   | Contains search (Default).  |
+| `&`    | `unaccent`    | Accent-insensitive search. (Currently only supported Django's [PostgreSQL backend][postgres-lookups]). |
 
 For example:
 
@@ -370,3 +371,4 @@ The [djangorestframework-word-filter][django-rest-framework-word-search-filter]
 [HStoreField]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/contrib/postgres/fields/#hstorefield
 [JSONField]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.JSONField
 [postgres-search]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/contrib/postgres/search/
+[postgres-lookups]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/contrib/postgres/lookups/#unaccent
diff --git a/rest_framework/filters.py b/rest_framework/filters.py
index 3f4730da8..d54a3b733 100644
--- a/rest_framework/filters.py
+++ b/rest_framework/filters.py
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ class SearchFilter(BaseFilterBackend):
         '=': 'iexact',
         '@': 'search',
         '$': 'iregex',
+        '&': 'unaccent',
     }
     search_title = _('Search')
     search_description = _('A search term.')