rime-ice

Rime-Ice is a ready-to-use configuration bundle for Rime, an open-source Chinese input method engine. Rime itself is a framework that ships as a blank slate, requiring deep configuration before you can comfortably type Simplified Chinese. Rime-Ice provides a complete, polished setup so you can install and start typing right away, fully offline.

The package includes both full-pinyin and several common double-pinyin schemes (abbreviated layouts that encode each syllable with two keystrokes), an English word list for mixed Chinese-English typing, an Emoji set, and a long-maintained Chinese dictionary the author hand-tunes by correcting wrong characters, fixing pronunciations, adjusting word frequencies, and adding missing terms. Every config file is heavily commented so you can read, learn, and customize without trial-and-error guessing.

Beyond basic typing, Rime-Ice adds utility features: lookup of rare characters by component parts, mistyping prompts, automatic English capitalization, date and lunar-calendar insertion, an inline calculator, Unicode lookup, UUID generation, and conversion of numbers into formal Chinese accounting script. It is compatible with the major Rime front-ends including Squirrel, Weasel, Fcitx5, and iBus, and can be installed manually or with the plum package manager via a one-line command.

You would use Rime-Ice if you want a privacy-friendly, offline, cross-platform Chinese input experience without learning Rime's configuration format from scratch. The recommended customization approach is to override settings via patch files so personal tweaks survive future updates. The full README is longer than what was provided.