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China license plate: Large car

Issued today 1992 to today. Standard plates for truck and bus, issued by 公安部交通管理局 (Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security). One of 22 China license plates.

China license plate, Large car (1992 to today), sample X36487
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Format, years and the law

Format
L99999, for example X36487 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Same two-character decode as the blue plate, province character, then issuing-office letter. The yellow ground adds the only extra fact, and it is size class, not commercial use: a privately owned medium bus is yellow, and so is a trolleybus.

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
1992 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for truck and bus.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFD500
Size
440 × 140 mm · every country's size
  • China license plate, Large car 440×220 mm (1992 to today)

    Large car 440×220 mm

    standard · 440 × 220 mm

About this plate
The yellow plate: medium and larger passenger and goods vehicles and special operating vehicles, semi-trailer tractors, and TROLLEYBUSES (电车, named in the table's scope column and easy to miss). Same registration-number grammar as the small-car plate; different colour and a taller rear plate. Note the scope boundary is the vehicle SIZE CLASS, not commercial use: a privately owned medium bus is yellow-plated.

Legal basis and sources

  1. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20150701102419/http://www.hngy.gov.cn/sitepublish/site1/wsbs/lyfwzl/jtfw/jdc/jdcfw/conten...
  2. web.archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20161122160811/http://www.mps.gov.cn/n2254098/n4904352/c5550094/content.html

This plate in your app

The series id is cn-large-car-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-large-car-1992")'
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