Chinese license plate generator
Type a registration, or any text, and see it on the real Chinese license plate, letter for letter. The generator knows the 22 plate formats issued in China and tells you whether what you typed fits one. Download SVG or PNG, free; nothing you type leaves your browser.
Example: X36487.
For display, mock-ups, education and design. These are pictures of plates, not plates. A plate for a vehicle comes from the issuing authority (公安部交通管理局) or a licensed plate maker, and showing a registration that was not issued to the vehicle is an offence in most places.
Private by design. The page downloads an empty plate and writes your registration into it on your device; the registration is never sent to us. Need many plates, or plates in your own app? The plates API returns every plate and its empty template for each format.
- Size
- 440 × 220 mm (17.3 × 8.7 in); 440 × 140 mm (17.3 × 5.5 in) for cars; 220 × 95 mm (8.7 × 3.7 in); 220 × 140 mm (8.7 × 5.5 in) for motorcycles
- Format
- L99999, for example 京A·88562 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)
- Every fact about China license plates, with its source
Every China plate you can make
28 plates across 11 classes (standard, agricultural, consular, diplomatic, electric, government, moped, motorcycle, police, temporary, and trailer), each drawn with a sample registration. Pick one to make your own. China license plates: formats, years and sources. Need them empty? Blank Chinese license plate templates.
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Standard: Small car (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. 京A·88562 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Large car (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. X36487 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Large car 440×220 mm (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. H88900 Format, years and sources
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Standard: Driving school car (1992 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. W4536 Format, years and sources
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Standard: HK/Macau cross-border (~2007 → today) Format Z9999 · e.g. 粤Z·H714港 Format, years and sources
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Electric: New energy small (2016 → today) Format L999999 · e.g. 京A·D88562 Format, years and sources
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Electric: New energy large (2016 → today) Format L999999 · e.g. 京A88562D Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. P92827 Format, years and sources
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Motorcycle 220×140 mm (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. T66435 Format, years and sources
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Driving school motorcycle (1992 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. A8098 Format, years and sources
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Driving school motorcycle 220×140 mm (1992 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. K6418 Format, years and sources
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Moped (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. J80901 Format, years and sources
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Moped 220×140 mm (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. Q64915 Format, years and sources
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Agricultural: Low-speed (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. Q40064 Format, years and sources
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Trailer (1992 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. 京·A7702挂 Format, years and sources
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Temporary travel (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. P74035 Format, years and sources
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Temporary entry car (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. O93445 Format, years and sources
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Temporary entry motorcycle (1992 → today) Format L99999 · e.g. U10369 Format, years and sources
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Government: Emergency rescue car (2018 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. S5726 Format, years and sources
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Government: Emergency rescue motorcycle (2018 → today) Format 999L · e.g. 应急京770X Format, years and sources
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Police car (2007 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. U8269 Format, years and sources
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Police motorcycle (2007 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. I5984 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic: Embassy car (~1992 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 915275 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic: Embassy motorcycle (~1992 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 840901 Format, years and sources
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Diplomatic: Embassy motorcycle 220×140 mm (~1992 → today) Format 999999 · e.g. 165822 Format, years and sources
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Consular: Consulate car (1992 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. M3533 Format, years and sources
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Consular: Consulate motorcycle (1992 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. J4598 Format, years and sources
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Consular: Consulate motorcycle 220×140 mm (1992 → today) Format L9999 · e.g. S3319 Format, years and sources
How the generator works
- Choose a country or state, then the plate: the standard plate first, then motorcycle, personalized, historic and the rest, each with the years it was issued.
- Where a plate was issued in several looks (front and rear colours, an older base), choose the design.
- Type a registration, a name or any text. It is drawn on the plate as you type, in the plate's own lettering, and shrunk to fit when it is long (24 characters at most). The generator also says whether it fits that plate's real format, the one the issuing authority publishes; tick "Only real formats" to draw real registrations only and see which plates a registration fits. Characters the plate's lettering does not have, like emoji, are left out, and the generator names them.
- Download the plate as SVG (a vector for print and design tools) or PNG (2400 pixels wide), copy a link, or copy the code to embed it on a web page.