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I'd like to see Chinese characters, such as this one.

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This package seems to have a complete Chinese font:

sudo apt-get install fonts-wqy-zenhei

I see that it installs it to:

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-zenhei.ttc

Sometimes, the system DejaVuSans font is used as a fallback:

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf

As part of an earlier attempt, I also installed a bunch of fonts with:

sudo apt-get install fonts-arphic-bkai00mp fonts-arphic-bsmi00lp fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp fonts-arphic-gkai00mp fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-cns11643-kai fonts-cns11643-sung fonts-cwtex-fs fonts-cwtex-heib fonts-cwtex-kai fonts-cwtex-ming fonts-cwtex-yen

and I see that fonts-arphic-ukai added /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/ukai.ttc, which seems to have a very complete set of Chinese characters.

Mitch
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    I had the same issue in this question http://askubuntu.com/questions/189945/install-chineseand-other-utf-8-fonts-for-xvfb, `fonts-wqy-zenhei` totally saved me. – zjk Jan 08 '16 at 06:48
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    That particular font file came from `fonts-arphic-ukai`: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/fonts-arphic-ukai – crazy2be Jan 15 '17 at 00:18
  • ah, you so much help me, I spent so much time to fix absent Chinese characters – madjardi Jun 10 '18 at 11:20
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You can download font files from this website for example. After that you open them (with Font Viewer or your equivalent program) and click install. Simple as that!

If you'd like to view all characters at once and browse through them I recommend you to try out GNOME Character Map, if you haven't already.

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  • So do any of the fonts that come with Kubuntu 14.04 support the full range of Chinese characters? I can see some characters with the system fonts, but others are squares. – Mitch Jul 03 '14 at 07:46
  • I installed xfonts-intl-chinese and xfonts-intl-chinese-big, but I still see some squares. – Mitch Jul 03 '14 at 07:56
  • I also installed http://cooltext.com/Download-Font-%E7%B2%97%E6%A5%B7%E4%BD%93%E7%AE%80+Kai+Bold from that site, but I still see squares... I'm starting to think this may be an issue with my Qt build. – Mitch Jul 03 '14 at 08:00