diff --git a/pkgs/data/fonts/wqy-microhei/default.nix b/pkgs/data/fonts/wqy-microhei/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fb3bbabf847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/fonts/wqy-microhei/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "wqy-microhei-0.2.0-beta";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/wqy/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0gi1yxqph8xx869ichpzzxvx6y50wda5hi77lrpacdma4f0aq0i8";
+  };
+
+  installPhase =
+    ''
+      install -Dm644 wqy-microhei.ttc $out/share/fonts
+    '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "A (mainly) Chinese Unicode font";
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a51d1d33f56..5fa44337c73 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7344,6 +7344,8 @@ let
 
   vistafonts = callPackage ../data/fonts/vista-fonts { };
 
+  wqy_microhei = callPackage ../data/fonts/wqy-microhei { };
+
   wqy_zenhei = callPackage ../data/fonts/wqy-zenhei { };
 
   xhtml1 = callPackage ../data/sgml+xml/schemas/xml-dtd/xhtml1 { };