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Using Chinese Characters in Matplotlib

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After searching from Google, here is easiest solution. This should also works on other languages:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
%config InlineBackend.figure_format = 'retina'

import matplotlib.font_manager as fm
f = "/System/Library/Fonts/PingFang.ttc"
prop = fm.FontProperties(fname=f)

plt.title("你好",fontproperties=prop)
plt.show()

Output: