Datatypes

Chinese ID card (身份证) by known name

ID idcard

Citizen identification number of the People's Republic of China, printed on the Resident Identity Card (居民身份证). Since 1999 it has 18 characters, a six-digit address code, the date of birth as YYYYMMDD, a three-digit sequence code and a check digit computed with ISO 7064 MOD 11-2, where X stands for 10. Older numbers have 15 digits, with a two-digit year and no check digit.

Categories

Personally identifiable information, Person related

Countries

China

Languages

Chinese

AutoType benchmark

cin

W3C DPV

pd:OfficialID

Microsoft Purview

China resident identity card (PRC) number

python-stdnum

stdnum.cn.ric

Quality

75/100 · missing: examples, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

3 rules (3 by field name, 0 by value)

• cnidcardknown field, cn/cn_persons.yaml
• cn_pii_cnidcardknown field, pii/cn/cn_pii.yaml
• zhidcardknown field, pii/zh/zh_pii.yaml

Supported by tools

Auto-Type, AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Azure AI Language PII detection, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, DataPrep, metacrafter, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, python-stdnum

Regular expression

^(?:\d{17}[\dX]|\d{15})$

Python re syntax.

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Identity_Card

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/idcard
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/CN/persons/idcard.yaml on GitHub