diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 821be04aac..4868eadb96 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -3380,3 +3380,4 @@ libbroker.so.0 bro-2.6.1_1
 libcaf_core.so.0.16.2 bro-2.6.1_1
 libcaf_openssl.so.0.16.2 bro-2.6.1_1
 libllhttp.so.1 llhttp-1.0.1_1
+libpinyin.so.13 libpinyin-2.2.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpinyin-devel b/srcpkgs/libpinyin-devel
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..b9910dce3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpinyin-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libpinyin
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libpinyin/template b/srcpkgs/libpinyin/template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..561317d396
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libpinyin/template
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Template file for 'libpinyin'
+pkgname=libpinyin
+version=2.2.1
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="intltool libtool pkg-config autoconf-archive autoconf automake
+ wget gnome-common"
+makedepends="db-devel libglib-devel"
+short_desc="Support library for PinYin and ZhuYin (Bopofomo)"
+maintainer="Ben Sung Hsu <pobetiger+github@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
+homepage="https://github.com/libpinyin/libpinyin"
+distfiles="https://github.com/libpinyin/libpinyin/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=38a434f5f29607dcdf7c721cdff5a2428f03297a99064c7e15a9a64c1b831069
+nocross="Requires data generators compiled against target system"
+
+pre_configure() {
+	NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
+}
+
+libpinyin-devel_package() {
+	depends="libglib-devel libpinyin-${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.so"
+		vmove "usr/lib/*.a"
+	}
+}