Unifont is not ugly for its intended purpose: a bitmapped, fixed-width 16-pixel font. It’s great for terminals or Emacs IMHO, as long as your monitor resolution isn’t too high…
I don’t know Chinese so I can’t vouch for coverage, but Wen Quan Yi seems to be the most popular open-source Chinese font (the hànzì in Unifont are actually based on it, IIRC). The website is http://wenq.org/enindex.cgi , but it’s pre-packaged for all major distros. -- Leonardo Boiko http://namakajiri.net