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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.

Overview

Language Package Process
Install Chinese Language Pack
How to active Chinese language pack
How to contribute
Supported Magento versions
Notes
Language package authors

1. Language Package Process

This is status of Chinese Language Pack, you can see how many percentage of this project has been done.

It is not fully translated? Feel free to contribute:

On Crowdin: It takes time to approve your contribution by Magento team.
On Github: It's faster, our team will approve it after you send pull request.

Find other language packs here

2. How to Install Chinese Language Pack

There are 3 different methods to install this language pack.

✓ Method #1. Composer method (Recommend)

Install the Chinese language pack via composer is never easier.

Install Chinese pack:

With Marketing Automation (recommend):

composer require mageplaza/magento-2-chinese-language-pack:dev-master mageplaza/module-smtp 
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

Without Marketing Automation:

composer require 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

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

Authentication required (If any)

If you have not added this authentication, you can follow this guide

Or use these keys:

Public Key: c7af1bfc9352e9c986637eec85ed53af
Private Key: 17e1b72ea5f0b23e9dbfb1f68dc12b53

✓ Method #2. Copy & Paste method (Not recommended)

This method suitable for non-technical people such as merchants. Just download the package then flush cache.

Overview

Step 1: Download the Chinese language pack
Step 2: Unzip Chinese pack
Step 3: Flush Magento 2 Cache

Step 1 : Download the Chinese language pack

You can download the language pack from above link

Step 2: Unzip Chinese pack

Unzip the Chinese language pack to Magento 2 root folder. In this guide, we extract to /var/www/html/ Your Magento 2 root folder can be: /home/account_name/yourstore.com/public_html/

unzip master.zip app/i18n/Mageplaza/

Rename folder magento-2-chinese-language-pack to zh_hans_cn.

You also can unzip locally and upload them to Magento 2 root folder.

Step 3: Flush Magento 2 Cache

Follow this guide to Flush Cache on your Magento 2 store

✓ Method #3. Download and install manually (Not recommended)

To download and install Chinese pack manually, you have to access to your server via FTP or SFTP.

Step 1: Download the package

Step 1: Unzip and upload

Unzip the compressed file and upload file master.zip into app/i18n/Mageplaza/zh_hans_cn/

See this screenshot:

This language pack code is: zh_hans_cn

Step 2: Flush cache

Follow this guide to Flush Cache on your Magento 2 store

3. How to Active the Chinese language pack

Now time to active the Chinese language pack for your Magento 2 store. From Magento 2 admin panel, navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Locale Options

4. How to contribute

Contribute to this language at :

On Crowdin: It takes time to approve your contribution by Magento team.
On Github: It's faster, our team will approve it after you send pull request.

5. Supported Magento versions

It supports all Magento 2 versions include Magento 2 open-source (Community), Magento 2 Commerce (EE), Magento Cloud, Magento B2B, Magento MSI.

Magento v2.0.x
Magento v2.1.x
Magento v2.2.x
Magento v2.3.x
Magento v2.4.x

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