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

See Input method#List of available input method editors