The registration numbers of civil vehicles are mostly in groups of two English letters 1 to 4 digits (1-9999). In earlier years, the license plate 1 to 20 was held by senior government officials and parliamentarians, and it was not held by the public until 2 1.
The earliest registration number without letters is from 1 to 9999, followed by the prefix "HK" (HK1-HK9999) and then the prefix "XX" (XX1-XX 9999). The superintendent who issued the license plate found that the prefix "HK" was used up, so he randomly drew two letters ("XX") and the prefix "XX" appeared. Originally, he meant to use two letters casually, but the person in charge of issuing license plates thought that the prefix "XX" was used. After the prefix "XX" was used up, the authorities decided to issue license plates alphabetically from the prefix "AA".
Because the four-digit registration number with prefix 4 (4000 to 4999, but the first license plate is 4 10 1) is reserved for buses and taxis; The four-digit (5000-5999) registration number with prefix 5 is reserved for trucks, so some license plates are pulled up. Later, the system of reserving license plates for buses, taxis and trucks was cancelled, and license plates were issued together with other vehicles. In earlier years, the four-digit (8000-8999) registration number with prefix 8 was reserved for government vehicles, and then the prefix "AM" was used.
After the "AZ" card was issued, the "BB" card began to be issued. At that time, "BA" and "BF" cards were not issued, because "BA" might be confused with "AB", and some people said that it stood for "British Army". "BF" stands for "bloody fool" in English, but many citizens jokingly call it "English fool", which means "English people are stupid".
With the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty, the issuer has also drawn up some "FV" and "FU" brands to supply and demand mainland vehicles between China and Hong Kong. In addition, in mid-2003, the Transport Department also publicly bid for BA and BF license plates.
There are also some prefixes dedicated to specific areas: the registration number of rural vehicles in Cheung Chau and Lamma Island is "VV". However, a small number of related prefixes have been opened as ordinary civil license plates in late October of 20 18+08 10 (the first VV brand bus is VV357, which is a three-axle double-decker bus of Citybus 12.8m).
In addition, some special vehicles also use some prefixes, such as "AM" for government vehicles and "LC" for Legislative Council vehicles. Before 2000, the Regional Council and the Urban Council used "RC" and "UC" respectively.
By the end of March 2022, the prefix "XY" had been issued for Hong Kong license plates.
motor scooter
Motorcycle registration numbers in Hong Kong were originally issued separately from ordinary vehicles, and they also started with numbers without letters. After issuing the number without letters, the issuer uses a single letter with numbers (as shown in the figure, "E259" (the page is archived and backed up in the Internet Archives), which is different from ordinary double letters. After that, the motorcycle's license was also merged with ordinary vehicles, and the original registration number continued to be used until the owner canceled the registration. Today, a small number of motorcycles still use old special license plates, so there will be two cars with the same registration number in Hong Kong. Whenever a vehicle is given a ticket by the police for violating traffic regulations, its model will be listed on the ticket, so another vehicle and its owner will not be implicated in the prosecution.
Special vehicle
Single letter
"A": ambulances, mobile casualty treatment vehicles, medical auxiliary equipment vehicles and ambulance motorcycles of the Fire Services Department (two mobile casualty treatment vehicles use "F" license plates, and the other two new mobile casualty treatment vehicles use "A" license plates; Rural ambulances used to use the "F" prefix license plate, and later changed to the "A" prefix license plate [4]; Auxiliary medical service ambulances use the prefix "am" license plate; Ambulances of the Hospital Authority and St. John's Ambulance Team use civilian license plates).
"F": other vehicles of the Fire Services Department.
"T": divided into prefix and suffix. A temporary license plate with a red prefix on a white background is used by vehicles without a formal license plate. Initially, they were used to transport cars, customers of vehicle marketers and vehicles that had been tested and repaired by vehicle repairers. However, in recent years, there is a trend of abuse. For example, a left-seat car that can't register a license plate is hung on these license plates for private use. In 206438+02, the government revised the law and introduced a temporary license plate with blue characters on a white background, which is suitable for left-hand vehicles. The suffix is used for the trailer attached to the vehicle, because it only needs to be displayed at the tail of the trailer, so there are only black characters on the yellow background (government vehicle trailers use the prefix "AM" license plate).
The prefix "a" contains three digits at most (currently A4 12 to A426 are transfer ambulances, A6XX are ambulance motorcycles, A70X are country ambulances, A7 1X are rapid response ambulances, A72 1 to A765438 are training ambulances, A8 1X are auxiliary medical equipment vehicles, and A70/x is a vehicle.
Consisting of two letters
"am" [a]: ordinary government vehicles (including police cars, postal vehicles, vehicles under Radio Television Hong Kong, etc. ).
"CJ": (Chief Justice) The Chief Justice of Hong Kong before the transfer of sovereignty and the Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal after the transfer of sovereignty have no number on their license plates. Those with numbers are ordinary civilian license plates.
"CS": (Chief Secretary for Administration) The Chief Secretary for Administration during the Hong Kong-British period, and the special car of the Chief Secretary for Administration after the transfer of sovereignty (the British name of the Chief Secretary for Administration during the Hong Kong-British period was Chief Secretary; After the transfer of sovereignty, the Chief Secretary for Administration is the Chief Secretary for Administration, and there is no number on the license plate. Those with numbers are ordinary civilian license plates.
"FS": Financial Secretary after (Financial Secretary) 1995, special vehicle for the Financial Secretary during the SAR period, with no license plate number. Those with numbers are ordinary civilian license plates.
"FV": (Foreign vehicles) In principle, Fv number plates will be issued to mainland left-seat minibuses entering Hong Kong. However, because mainland cars have not been opened to Hong Kong for a long time, most of the three-digit license plates with the prefix 1 and 7 and the four-digit license plates with the prefix 1, 5, and 7 are right-hand vehicles in Hong Kong, and FV license plates are also registered.
"Ha": (Hospital Authority) Hospital Authority. It is also suitable for ordinary civilian vehicles.
"LC": (Legislative Council) Legislative Council vehicle (LC 1 usually the vehicle of the President of the Legislative Council, LC 2 the vehicle of the Secretary-General of the Legislative Council and LC 3 the vehicle of the Legal Adviser of the Legislative Council).
"RC": (Regional Council) The vehicles of the former Regional Council were used from April 1986 to February 1999, and were merged into AM after the dissolution of the Regional Council. It became a 20 1 1 10 civil license plate.
"SJ": (Secretary for Justice), it is the Secretary for Justice's special car. There are no numbers on the license plate. The Ministry of Justice used AG (Attorney General) during the British occupation, and the numbered SJ license plate became a civil license plate at 20 13 1 1.
"UC": (Urban Council) The former Urban Council vehicles were used from 1983 to199965438+February, and were incorporated into AM after dissolution in 2000. 201May 6 became a civil license plate.
"vv": (country vehicle) country vehicle. Small cars usually distributed to outlying islands (Cheung Chau, Hei Ling Chau, Lamma Island and Peng Chau). However, in urban areas and other areas, such as Kadoorie Farm, Beas River Country Club and Shatin Racecourse, occasionally special small vehicles are registered under the name of country vehicles. The prefix has been opened as the ordinary civil license plate 2065438+081late October.
"ZG": (ZH GNG) The vehicle of the PLA Garrison in Hong Kong is the pinyin abbreviation of ZH GNG (Garrison in Hong Kong) in Mandarin. These numbers are not under the jurisdiction of the Transport Department and are not issued by the Transport Department. According to official data, ZG license plate has been in use since the handover of the Sino-British Hong Kong regime to the PLA troops stationed in Hong Kong, and it has been communicated with relevant government departments before licensing, but the specific details are inconvenient to disclose [5]. The font and license plate size of ZG license plate used by PLA troops stationed in Hong Kong refer to the Chinese mainland license plate format with the special watermark of PLA license plate, and adopt the font of West Germany, which is different from the font and license plate size of ordinary license plates in Hong Kong. However, the color is in accordance with the Hong Kong license plate specifications, with black characters on a white background in front and black characters on a yellow background in the back.
Before the transfer of sovereignty, the People's Liberation Army stationed in Hong Kong used the previously issued AD7××× prefix license plate.
"zm": (Zhuhai Macao) Macao vehicles entering Hong Kong via the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge vehicles).