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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

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

1. 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!

Download packages:

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:

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

Authentication required (If any)

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

✓ 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 fr.zip app/code/Mageplaza/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 zh_Hans_CN.zip into app/i18n/mageplaza/zh_Hans_CN/zh_Hans_CN.csv

Step 2: Flush cache

Follow this guide to Flush Cache on your Magento 2 store

3. How to active 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