How can I install Chinese fonts on Kubuntu 14.04

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.