Localization/Chinese

This article describes how to set up a Chinese language environment.

Fonts

adobe source han fonts
- adobe-source-han-sans-cn-fonts - Simplified Chinese OpenType/CFF Sans fonts
- adobe-source-han-sans-tw-fonts - Traditional Chinese OpenType/CFF Sans fonts
- adobe-source-han-sans-hk-fonts - Hong Kong Chinese OpenType/CFF Sans fonts
- adobe-source-han-serif-cn-fonts - Simplified Chinese OpenType/CFF Serif fonts
- adobe-source-han-serif-tw-fonts - Traditional Chinese OpenType/CFF Serif fonts
- adobe-source-han-serif-hk-fonts - Hong Kong Chinese OpenType/CFF Serif fonts
noto Chinese fonts
- noto-fonts - Google Noto TTF fonts
- noto-fonts-cjk - Google Noto CJK fonts
- noto-fonts-emoji - Google Noto emoji fonts
- noto-fonts-sc^AUR - Noto CJK-SC fonts for Simplified Chinese
- noto-fonts-tc^AUR - Noto CJK-TC fonts for Traditional Chinese
wqy fonts
- wqy-microhei - WenQuanYi Micro Hei font family (also known as Hei, Gothic or Dotum) is a sans-serif style derived from Droid Sans Fallback, it offers high quality CJK outline font and it is extremely compact (~5M).
- wqy-zenhei - Hei Ti Style (sans-serif) Chinese Outline font embedded with bitmapped Song Ti (also supporting Japanese (partial) and Korean characters).
- wqy-bitmapfont - Bitmapped Song Ti (serif) Chinese font.
arphic fonts
- ttf-arphic-ukai - Kaiti (brush stroke) Unicode font (enabling anti-aliasing is suggested)
- ttf-arphic-uming - Mingti (printed) Unicode font
opendesktop-fonts - New Sung font, previously is ttf-fireflysung package
ttf-hannom - Chinese and Vietnamese ttf fonts
Standard fonts of Traditional Chinese
- ttf-tw^AUR - Kai and Song traditional Chinese font from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan
- ttf-twcns-fonts^AUR Chinese TrueType fonts by Ministry of Education of Taiwan government, supporting CNS11643 standard, including Kai and Sung fontface.
Windows Chinese fonts
- ttf-ms-win8-zh_cn^AUR - windows8 simple Chinese fonts.
- ttf-ms-win8-zh_tw^AUR - windows8 traditional Chinese fonts.
- ttf-ms-win10-zh_cn^AUR - windows10 simple Chinese fonts.
- ttf-ms-win10-zh_tw^AUR - windows10 traditional Chinese fonts.
- ttf-ms-win11-zh_cn^AUR - windows11 simple Chinese fonts.
- ttf-ms-win11-zh_tw^AUR - windows11 traditional Chinese fonts.
ttf-i.bming^AUR - CJK serif font that emphasis on an old-style typeface.
ttf-sarasa-gothic - Sarasa Gothic, which is a CJK monospaced font based on Iosevka and Source Han Sans.

Input methods

This article or section is a candidate for merging with Input method#List of available input method editors.

Notes: Looks like it's already covered there. (Discuss in Talk:Localization/Chinese)

The following input method (IM) engines are available for Chinese:

Engine	Fcitx5	Fcitx	IBus	Uim	Scim	Nimf
Rime	fcitx5-rime	fcitx-rime	ibus-rime	–	–	built-in
Pinyin	fcitx5-chinese-addons	built-in	ibus-pinyin^AUR	–	scim-pinyin^AUR	built-in
Zhuyin	fcitx5-chewing	fcitx-chewing	ibus-chewing	–	scim-chewing	built-in
Cangjie Sucheng SmartCangjie	fcitx5-table-extra	fcitx-table-extra	ibus-table-chinese	–	scim-tables^AUR	–
Wubi	built-in	built-in	ibus-table	built-in	scim-tables^AUR	–
Libpinyin	–	fcitx-libpinyin	ibus-libpinyin	–	–	–
SunPinyin	–	fcitx-sunpinyin	ibus-sunpinyin	–	–	–