---
id: "cn_vehicle_plate"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["transport"]
country: ["CN"]
langs: ["zh"]
quality: 80
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/cn_vehicle_plate"
---

# Chinese civil vehicle registration plate (`cn_vehicle_plate`)

> **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.

Registration number on the plate of a civil vehicle in mainland China under the standard GA 36-2018: the one-character abbreviation of the province, a letter of the issuing authority, often a separating dot, and a serial. Ordinary plates have five digits and letters, never I or O. Green new-energy plates have six characters: small vehicles start with an energy letter (D, A, B, C or E for pure electric, F, G, H, J or K for others), large vehicles end with it. Police, learner, trailer, Hong Kong, Macao and diplomatic plates are not covered.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Transportation (transport)
- Countries: China (CN)
- Languages: Chinese (zh)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[京津冀晋蒙辽吉黑沪苏浙皖闽赣鲁豫鄂湘粤桂琼渝川贵云藏陕甘青宁新][A-Z][·• -]?(?:[A-HJ-NP-Z0-9]{5}|[A-HJKP][A-HJ-NP-Z0-9]\d{4}|\d{5}[A-HJK])$
```

## Examples

- `京A·F0236` — Synthetic ordinary plate of Beijing
- `粤B·D73519` — Synthetic plate of a small pure electric vehicle of Shenzhen
- `苏E·60318F` — Synthetic plate of a large new-energy vehicle of Suzhou
- `京A·12O45` (invalid example) — The letter O is never used

## Translations

- zh: 民用机动车号牌

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%8D%8E%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD%E6%B0%91%E7%94%A8%E6%9C%BA%E5%8A%A8%E8%BD%A6%E5%8F%B7%E7%89%8C>
- doc: <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GA_36-2018.pdf>

## Quality

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

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