# Thailand license plate: Taxi

> The Thailand taxi license plate: format 9999, for example 3207, documented since 2011, car. What each character means, its sizes and sources.

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Part of [Thailand license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand) (21 registration series).

![Thailand license plate, Taxi (documented since 2011)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-taxi-2011/thailand-license-plate-taxi.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `9999` (9 any digit) |
| Years | ~2011 → today (documented from 2011; the format is likely older) |
| Class | taxi |
| Issued for | car |
| Plate size | 340 × 150 mm |
| Colours | background #FFD400; characters #000000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it. |
| Series id | `th-taxi-2011` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/taxi-2011) |

Yellow ground, black characters: the metered taxi. Bangkok's taxi letter pairs famously open with ท — the letter recited as "soldier" — running ทค, ทง and onward. The category lives in the colours; the letters just count the fleet.

Sources:

- [ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ก) retroreflective yellow ground for the four hire classes; ๒) 'รถยนต์รับจ้างบรรทุกคนโดยสารไม่เกินเจ็ดคนใช้สีดำ'](https://web.archive.org/web/20171113165614/http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2554/A/045/6.PDF)

## About this plate

METERED TAXI (รถยนต์รับจ้างบรรทุกคนโดยสารไม่เกินเจ็ดคน, a car for hire carrying not more than seven passengers): black characters on a retroreflective YELLOW ground. Yellow is the statutory ground for all four hire classes of ข้อ ๓ (๒) (ก); the CHARACTER colour is what separates them, and that is the whole design logic of the Thai hire fleet.

## Other taxi plates here

- [Interprovincial taxi](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/interprovincial-taxi-2011) (documented since 2011)
- [Motorcycle public](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/motorcycle-public-2011) (documented since 2011)
- [Service green](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/service-green-2011) (documented since 2011)
- [Small four-wheel hire](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/smallfourwheel-hire-2011) (documented since 2011)
- [Tuk-tuk](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/thailand/tuktuk-2011) (documented since 2011)

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/th/th-taxi-2011.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/thailand?series=th-taxi-2011
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/th` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "th-taxi-2011"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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