[Tex/LaTex] How to type Chinese characters in ShareLaTeX

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I'm going to type a few of Chinese characters among a bunch of English sentences,
for example:

Note: the first ":" introduces an extensive description of the sememe "tool|用具", describing what kind of tool it is; the second ":" introduces a lower-level extensive description of the sememe "wash|洗涤", indication what is washed and what is its relation with the tool, agent, method, time or instrument.

What should I do?

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(Founder of ShareLaTeX here). We've followed this up through our help desk, but just for reference the following minimal example will compile in ShareLaTeX (taken from How does one type Chinese in LaTeX?):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{gbsn}
文章内容。
\clearpage\end{CJK*}
\end{document}

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Another package that does transcription is the xpinyin package: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xpinyin. You can download it with Texlive 2012's build-in update utility. You need to compile your document with XeTeX or XeLaTeX, though. Luatex etc doesn't work.

For characters with multiple pronunciations such as 重 (can be pronounced zhòng or chóng), it will mark the default pronunciation in red in the pdf. Then there is the possibility to disambiguate it by typing \xpinyin{重}{chong2} After disambiguating all such cases, one can set the colour of all multi-pronunciation items to black by specifying \xpinyinsetup{multiple={\color{black}}} in the document preamble.

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My suggestion: include an image (in pdf format) that contain the three characters. Then you don't need to matter whether others have the proper fonts to compile the document.

Of course, you should prepare the image first. You can use:

% To produce a pdf image: "name.pdf"
% UTF-8 encoding
% Compile with XeLaTeX
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{SimSun}
\begin{document}

白居易

\end{document}

Then you can include the image (name.pdf) in your own article:

% You don't need any Chinese support here
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

blah blah blah \includegraphics{name.pdf} blah blah

\end{document}

Maybe you don't have a modern TeX distribution that support XeLaTeX or you don't have proper Chinses fonts for it. Then you can use the alternative document for the image:

% To produce a pdf image: "name.pdf"
% UTF-8 encoding
% Compile with PDFLaTeX
% Alternative method, if you don't have any proper Chinese TTF/OTF font installed
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{CJK}
\begin{document}
\begin{CJK}{UTF8}{gbsn}
白居易
\end{CJK}
\end{document}

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