---
id: "cn_passport"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["CN"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/cn_passport"
---

# Chinese ordinary passport number (`cn_passport`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Number of an ordinary passport issued by the National Immigration Administration of the People's Republic of China: nine characters. E-passports used E and eight digits until that range ran out in 2017, then E, a letter other than I and O, and seven digits, starting with EA0000001. Older ordinary passports, and now border tourism passports, use G and eight digits. Diplomatic, service and Hong Kong and Macao documents are not covered.

- Pattern of: `passport`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: China (CN)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^(?:E\d{8}|E[A-HJ-NP-Z]\d{7}|G\d{8})$
```

## Examples

- `EA0000001` — First number of the E-letter range, published by the immigration administration
- `E68984978` — Synthetic e-passport number of the first series
- `EI2345678` (invalid example) — The second letter is never I

## Translations

- zh: 普通护照号码

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_passport>
- doc: <https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_4186634>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/cn_passport.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/CN/persons/cn_passport.yaml>