# China license plate: Consulate car

> The China consulate car license plate: format L9999, for example M3533, 1992 to today, car and van. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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![China license plate, Consulate car (1992 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-consulate-car-1992/china-license-plate-consulate-car.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `L9999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1992 → today |
| Class | consular |
| Issued for | car, van |
| Plate size | 440 × 140 mm |
| Colours | background #000000; characters #FFFFFF; border #FFFFFF |
| Rear plate differs from the front | no |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `cn-consulate-car-1992` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/china/consulate-car-1992) |

The red 领 is short for 领事馆 — consulate. Because the plate keeps the ordinary province-plus-office frame, it names its host city: 沪A…领 is a consulate in Shanghai. The single most useful sourced fact about Chinese diplomatic plates.

| Code | Stands for | English |
|---|---|---|
| `领` | 领事馆 | consulate |

Sources:

- [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102419/http://www.hngy.gov.cn/sitepublish/site1/wsbs/lyfwzl/jtfw/jdc/jdcfw/content_25106.html)

## About this plate

Consular cars. The consulate's host city is decodable because the plate is built on the ordinary province + office-letter frame, § 5.1.1's layout grouping is the evidence, and it is the single most useful sourced fact about Chinese diplomatic plates. Unlike 使, the 领 character is NOT in GA 36-2007's list of characters that edition added, so this class is dated to the 1992 enabling instrument.

## Other consular plates here

- [Consulate motorcycle](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/china/consulate-motorcycle-1992) (1992 to today)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-consulate-car-1992.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/china?series=cn-consulate-car-1992
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cn` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "cn-consulate-car-1992"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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