diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy-pkuseg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy-pkuseg/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..670174a057e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/spacy-pkuseg/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, isPy3k
+, cython
+, numpy
+, srsly
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "spacy-pkuseg";
+  version = "0.0.28";
+
+  disabled = !isPy3k;
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit version;
+    pname = "spacy_pkuseg";
+    hash = "sha256-mmA/baY9ohvrM41ak5L+G8CUrSQeZCrzmMAoND4X/NI=";
+  };
+
+  # Does not seem to have actual tests, but unittest discover
+  # recognizes some non-tests as tests and fails.
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cython ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy srsly ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "spacy_pkuseg" ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Toolkit for multi-domain Chinese word segmentation (spaCy fork)";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/explosion/spacy-pkuseg";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ danieldk ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 6327231261c..7c63f819028 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -7720,6 +7720,8 @@ in {
 
   spacy_models = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spacy/models.nix { };
 
+  spacy-pkuseg = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spacy-pkuseg { };
+
   spake2 = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spake2 { };
 
   spark_parser = callPackage ../development/python-modules/spark_parser { };