diff --git a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/MySQLDialect.java b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/MySQLDialect.java
index 773f8c158d..43c0bee1d4 100644
--- a/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/MySQLDialect.java
+++ b/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/dialect/MySQLDialect.java
@@ -341,6 +341,8 @@ public class MySQLDialect extends Dialect {
 	@Override
 	public String getCastTypeName(int code) {
 		switch ( code ) {
+			case Types.BOOLEAN:
+				return "char";
 			case Types.INTEGER:
 			case Types.BIGINT:
 			case Types.SMALLINT: