diff --git a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/libpinyin/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/libpinyin/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5a661f93a9f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/libpinyin/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, glib, db, pkgconfig }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "libpinyin-1.3.0";
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Library for intelligent sentence-based Chinese pinyin input method";
+    homepace    = https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpinyin;
+    license     = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms   = platforms.linux;
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ glib db pkgconfig ];
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/project/libpinyin/libpinyin/libpinyin-1.3.0.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "e105c443b01cd67b9db2a5236435d5441cf514b997b891215fa65f16030cf1f2";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 05e26199a176..67b18f7f6498 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1030,6 +1030,8 @@ in
 
   anthy = callPackage ../tools/inputmethods/anthy { };
 
+  libpinyin = callPackage ../tools/inputmethods/libpinyin { };
+
   m17n_db = callPackage ../tools/inputmethods/m17n-db { };
 
   m17n_lib = callPackage ../tools/inputmethods/m17n-lib { };