babel errors on documentoption "chinese"

[u-fischer]

\documentclass[chinese]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\begin{document}
abc
\end{document}

gives

! Package babel Error: Unknown option 'chinese'. Either you misspelled it
(babel)                or the language definition file chinese.ldf was not foun
d.

it already happens for Package: babel 2021/06/28 3.61, but still exists in 3.62

[evawyy]

met the same issue

[jbezos]

Just tested with TeXLive 2024 and it works as expected. Please, post a minimal example and the log file.

[evawyy]

yes, it works well, thanks!