Chinese text entry

[Avraham Hanadari]

The recent thread about Korean text entry made mention of Scid/Skid, 
which I recall from an installation of SuSE. I went to their site 
(http://www.scim-im.org/) but am uncertain what to choose and how to 
proceed. Is there something already onboard Ubunto that will enable 
keying Chinese? I much prefer the pinyin input I use under Windows and 
had in that brief encounter with SuSE. 

Thanks in advance,

Avraham