China license plate: Embassy motorcycle
Issued today Documented since 1992. Diplomatic plates for motorcycle, issued by 公安部交通管理局 (Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security). One of 22 China license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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999999, for example840901(9 any digit)Digits, then a red 使, 使馆, embassy, and, uniquely among Chinese plates, no province character at all. What the digits encode is unpublished.
- 使
- 使馆 (embassy)
The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.
- Years issued
- Documented since 1992; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Diplomatic: diplomatic corps (embassy) issuance, usually its own decode. Issued for motorcycle.
- Colours
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Characters
#FFFFFFBackground#000000 - Size
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220 × 95 mm · every country's size
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Embassy motorcycle 220×140 mm
diplomatic · 220 × 140 mm
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- About this plate
- Embassy motorcycles. Modelled separately because § 5.4.2 gives it a distinct rear layout and the dimensions differ.
Legal basis and sources
- web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102419/http://www.hngy.gov.cn/sitepublish/site1/wsbs/lyfwzl/jtfw/jdc/jdcfw/conten...
This plate in your app
The series id is cn-embassy-motorcycle-1992. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of China's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/cn \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "cn-embassy-motorcycle-1992")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-embassy-motorcycle-1992.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-embassy-motorcycle-1992/template.svg
