China license plate: Moped

Issued today 1992 to today. Moped plates, 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, Moped (1992 to today), sample J80901

Format, years and the law

Format
L99999, for example J80901 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The standard two-character decode on the lightest class: province character, then the issuing-office letter, in the small-car colourway.

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
1992 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Moped: insurance/registration plates for mopeds (NL/DE small plates). Issued for moped.
Colours
Characters #FFFFFF Background #1C3F94
Size
220 × 95 mm · every country's size
  • China license plate, Moped 220×140 mm (1992 to today)

    Moped 220×140 mm

    moped · 220 × 140 mm

About this plate
轻便摩托车 (light motorcycle / moped) plates are the motorcycle plate in the SMALL-CAR colourway, blue ground, white characters, white keyline, and GA 36-2007 § 6.5 b) names them alongside the small-car plate as the two classes whose ground AND characters are both retroreflective. The dimensions cell of 表 1 row 10 is merged with row 9's, which is how the 220x95 front / 220x140 rear pair is read here.

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...

This plate in your app

The series id is cn-moped-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-moped-1992")'