China license plate: Trailer
Issued today 1992 to today. Trailer plates for trailer and semitrailer, 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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L9999, for example京·A7702挂(L is any letter, 9 any digit)Province, office letter, serial, then 挂, short for 挂车, trailer. One character saves you looking for a cab: if the number ends in 挂, the vehicle it belongs to is being towed.
- 挂
- 挂车 (trailer / semi-trailer)
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
- Trailer: trailers and semi-trailers where separately serialized. Issued for trailer and semitrailer.
- Colours
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Characters
#000000Background#FFD500 - Size
- 440 × 220 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- Full trailers and semi-trailers not permanently coupled to their tractor. The scope wording matters: a semi-trailer that IS permanently coupled is not separately plated. 《机动车登记规定》第九条 confirms the separate registration at rule level. One plate, rear only, on the tall 440x220 layout it shares with the large-vehicle rear plate.
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...
- gov.cn https://www.gov.cn/gongbao/content/2022/content_5682413.htm
This plate in your app
The series id is cn-trailer-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-trailer-1992")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-trailer-1992.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/cn/cn-trailer-1992/template.svg
