Magento 2 Chinese Language Pack

Today I will provide you another helpful document - Magento 2 Chinese Simplified Language Pack. With this knowledge base article, you can change the Magento 2 default language to Chinese Simplified Language with only two simple steps. After finishing, all labels on your storefront will be auto-converted to Chinese Simplified quickly.

Other language packages available at language packs page

Overview

• Download & Contribute
• Install Chinese Language Pack
• How to Install Chinese Language Pack

Download & Contribute to Chinese Language Pack

Below are two active buttons which are required operations before installing the language package. Let’s hit them to download and contribute Magento 2 Chinese Language Pack immediately!

How to Install Chinese Language Pack

Method #1. Install via Composer

Install the Chinese language pack via composer is never easier.

Install Chinese pack:

composer require mageplaza/magento-2-chinese-language-pack:dev-master
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy zh_Hans_CN
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Update Chinese pack:

composer update mageplaza/magento-2-chinese-language-pack:dev-master
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy zh_Hans_CN
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

Method #2. Install via command line

Install the Chinese language pack via command line.

Download language file to your installation root directory. Now run the following command:

wget https://github.com/mageplaza/magento-2-chinese-language-pack/raw/master/zh_Hans_CN.csv
php bin/magento i18n:pack -m replace zh_Hans_CN.csv zh_Hans_CN
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy zh_Hans_CN
php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

As a result, a directory langpack will be created that contains proper structure of language files for your installation. Copy it over to your Magento installation and the translations should be visible.

Note: additional directory i18n contains strings for which the module could not be found in your installation. This file can be skipped.

How to active language pack

Now time to active the language pack for your Magento 2 store. From Magento 2 admin panel, navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Locale Options Select Chinese (China) and click Save Configuration

Translation process of Chinese Language Pack

Supported Magento versions

• Magento v2.0.0
• Magento v2.0.1
• Magento v2.0.2
• Magento v2.0.3
• Magento v2.0.4
• Magento v2.0.5
• Magento v2.0.6
• Magento v2.0.7
• Magento v2.0.8
• Magento v2.0.9
• Magento v2.0.10
• Magento v2.0.11
• Magento v2.0.12
• Magento v2.0.13
• Magento v2.0.14
• Magento v2.0.15
• Magento v2.1.0
• Magento v2.1.1
• Magento v2.1.2
• Magento v2.1.3
• Magento v2.1.4
• Magento v2.1.5
• Magento v2.1.6
• Magento v2.1.7
• Magento v2.1.8

Language package authors:

• Magento official translations project for Magento 2
• Language packages built by Mageplaza team
• Chinese Language Pack on Github

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