China license plate: Motorcycle

Issued today 1992 to today. Motorcycle 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, Motorcycle (1992 to today), sample P92827

Format, years and the law

Format
L99999, for example P92827 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

Province character, then the letter of the issuing office, the same decode as the cars, without the separator dot.

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
Motorcycle: reduced-size series for motorcycles where format/design differs. Issued for motorcycle.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFD500
Size
220 × 95 mm · every country's size
  • China license plate, Motorcycle 220×140 mm (1992 to today)

    Motorcycle 220×140 mm

    motorcycle · 220 × 140 mm

About this plate
Ordinary two-wheel and three-wheel motorcycles. THE FRONT PLATE IS A 2007 FACT AND MAY NOT BE A 2018 ONE: GA 36-2007 表 1 gives this class a front plate of 220x95 mm as well as the rear 220x140, and the count column reads 2.

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-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-motorcycle-1992")'