How to Use Mandarin / Pinyin / Chinese in Ubuntu？

1. Go to System Settings–> Language Support–> Install/Remove Languages, select Chinese(Simplified)
2. Open the terminal and install the IBus framework with following command:
   

   sudo apt-get install ibus ibus-clutter ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-qt4

3. Start the IBus framework. In terminal input:
   

   im-config -s ibus

4. Install the Pinyin engine
   

   sudo apt-get install ibus-pinyin

5. Restart IBus daemon
   

   ibus restart

6. Setting the IBus
   

   ibus-setup

   In the popup window, switch to Input Method tab，click the Add button to choose the Chinese input method installed just now.
7. Go to the Text Entry (from the right-top corner of the window or from the System Settings -> Text Entry) for the shortcut of input method exchange.
8. Select Intelligent Pinyin

p/s: copied from https://leijinmin.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/install-google-pinyin-into-ubuntu-16-04/