diff --git a/src/transformers/tokenization_utils_tokenizers.py b/src/transformers/tokenization_utils_tokenizers.py
index afca202127be..b0d65b7c00c4 100644
--- a/src/transformers/tokenization_utils_tokenizers.py
+++ b/src/transformers/tokenization_utils_tokenizers.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 
 from transformers.utils.hub import cached_file
 
-from .convert_slow_tokenizer import SpmConverter
+from .convert_slow_tokenizer import SpmConverter, bytes_to_unicode
 from .integrations.ggml import convert_gguf_tokenizer
 from .modeling_gguf_pytorch_utils import load_gguf_checkpoint
 from .tokenization_utils_base import (
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 
 
 logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)
+BYTE_TO_UNICODE = bytes_to_unicode()
 
 # Fast tokenizers (provided by HuggingFace tokenizer's library) can be saved in a single file
 TOKENIZER_FILE = "tokenizer.json"
@@ -726,9 +727,49 @@ def _convert_id_to_token(self, index: int) -> str | None:
     def _add_tokens(self, new_tokens: list[str | AddedToken], special_tokens=False) -> int:
         if special_tokens:
             return self._tokenizer.add_special_tokens(new_tokens)
-
+        new_tokens = self._maybe_encode_added_tokens_for_bytelevel(new_tokens)
         return self._tokenizer.add_tokens(new_tokens)
 
+    def _maybe_encode_added_tokens_for_bytelevel(self, new_tokens: list[str | AddedToken]) -> list[str | AddedToken]:
+        pre_tokenizer = getattr(self.backend_tokenizer, "pre_tokenizer", None)
+        decoder = getattr(self.backend_tokenizer, "decoder", None)
+        normalizer = getattr(self.backend_tokenizer, "normalizer", None)
+
+        def _contains_bytelevel(component: Any) -> bool:
+            if component is None:
+                return False
+            if component.__class__.__name__ == "ByteLevel":
+                return True
+            # Some tokenizers expose wrappers like `Sequence([... ByteLevel(...) ...])`.
+            # We use repr-based detection as these wrappers do not consistently expose
+            # iterable internals in the Python bindings.
+            return "ByteLevel(" in repr(component)
+
+        # Some ByteLevel tokenizers (e.g. GPT-2/Qwen families) may use ByteLevel pre-tokenizer/decoder
+        # without a ByteLevel normalizer. In this setup, raw unicode added tokens can decode incorrectly
+        # (e.g. U+010D -> '\r'). Encoding added token contents through the ByteLevel alphabet
+        # preserves roundtrip behavior.
+        if _contains_bytelevel(pre_tokenizer) and _contains_bytelevel(decoder) and not _contains_bytelevel(normalizer):
+            encoded_tokens: list[str | AddedToken] = []
+            for token in new_tokens:
+                if isinstance(token, AddedToken):
+                    encoded_content = "".join(BYTE_TO_UNICODE[b] for b in token.content.encode("utf-8"))
+                    encoded_tokens.append(
+                        AddedToken(
+                            encoded_content,
+                            single_word=token.single_word,
+                            lstrip=token.lstrip,
+                            rstrip=token.rstrip,
+                            normalized=token.normalized,
+                            special=token.special,
+                        )
+                    )
+                else:
+                    encoded_tokens.append("".join(BYTE_TO_UNICODE[b] for b in token.encode("utf-8")))
+            return encoded_tokens
+
+        return new_tokens
+
     def num_special_tokens_to_add(self, pair: bool = False) -> int:
         """
         Returns the number of added tokens when encoding a sequence with special tokens.
diff --git a/tests/models/gpt2/test_tokenization_gpt2.py b/tests/models/gpt2/test_tokenization_gpt2.py
index 8e409064320c..859aa8232851 100644
--- a/tests/models/gpt2/test_tokenization_gpt2.py
+++ b/tests/models/gpt2/test_tokenization_gpt2.py
@@ -84,6 +84,18 @@ def test_tokenization_tiktoken(self):
             tiktoken_fast_tokenizer.decode(rust_tokenizer.encode(sequence)),
         )
 
+    def test_added_tokens_unicode_roundtrip_with_bytelevel(self):
+        """Regression (#45051): added vocabulary with Unicode must encode/decode cleanly for ByteLevel without a normalizer."""
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self.from_pretrained_id[0])
+        new_tokens = ["Začnimo", "kuća", "međa"]
+        tokenizer.add_tokens(new_tokens)
+
+        for word in new_tokens:
+            with self.subTest(word=word):
+                ids = tokenizer.encode(word, add_special_tokens=False)
+                decoded = tokenizer.decode(ids, skip_special_tokens=False)
+                self.assertEqual(decoded, word)
+
 
 @require_tokenizers
 class OPTTokenizationTest(unittest.TestCase):