Virtual try-on in Chinese (Simplified)

Chinese (Simplified) shoppers and your product pages

Simplified Chinese characters are the standard written form in mainland China and Singapore. The script is character-based rather than alphabetic: there are no spaces between words, text tends to be visually denser than Latin text, and translated strings often come out shorter than their English equivalents. That affects product pages in practical ways — buttons sized for English labels can look empty or cramped, and your theme needs a font stack that renders CJK characters cleanly. If you localize your Shopify store into Simplified Chinese, review how headings, product descriptions, and interface labels actually render rather than assuming the English layout carries over.

What Looksy's language support covers

Chinese (Simplified) appears in the 47-language list on Looksy's Shopify App Store listing. What the listing does not spell out is translation depth — whether that covers the shopper-facing try-on widget, the merchant dashboard, or both. Rather than guessing, verify it yourself: install the app, switch your store to Simplified Chinese, and run the try-on flow the way a shopper would. The Free plan's unlimited try-ons make this a zero-cost check. It also helps that the core of the product is an image, not a sentence — a shopper seeing themselves wearing your product needs no translation at all.

Setting up for Chinese (Simplified)-speaking shoppers

Add Simplified Chinese as a published language in Shopify's admin under Settings, then Languages, and translate your storefront content. Looksy installs as a theme app extension, so the try-on block is added from the theme editor without touching theme code — enable it on your product template the same way regardless of language. Then test as a shopper: set your browser to Chinese, open a product page, and run a try-on on the Free plan, which includes unlimited try-ons. Pay attention to how button microcopy renders in your theme's CJK font and whether any fixed-width elements clip the denser character forms.

The try-on flow in any language

The mechanics are the same whatever language your storefront runs in. A shopper uploads one photo and sees themselves wearing the product on the product page in about 20 seconds — no app download, no account, no camera permission. They can retry with another photo, leave feedback, and download or share the result. Pricing runs from a Free plan with unlimited try-ons and Looksy branding, through Starter at $14.99 per month and Growth at $29, to Scale at $79, which adds Realtime video try-on. Billing is usage-based through Shopify with no contracts, so a Simplified Chinese storefront can start on Free and upgrade only when the numbers justify it.

Sources: the public Shopify App Store listing for Looksy, which enumerates all 47 supported languages. Last checked 29 July 2026.