How to type Chinese on MacOS - El Capitan, Sierra, Mojave, OSX Go to System Preferences... Choose Keyboard Choose Input Sources, then click + Select Chinese (Simplified) - Pinyin - Simplified then click Add Make sure Show Input menu in menu bar is checked

On your Mac, switch to the Pinyin - Simplified input source. In an app, do any of the following: Enter Pinyin: Type the input codes for the characters you want to use, then select the characters in the Candidate window. For example, to enter 苹, type “

On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Input Sources. Open the Input Sources pane for me. Click the Add button , select “Chinese, Traditional,” “Chinese, Simplified,” or “Cantonese, Traditional” (on