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宁 plates: Ningxia, and what the letters mean
Facts checked
A plate beginning 宁 was registered in Ningxia, a autonomous region. The character is Níng, said roughly “ning”. 宁 means 'peace' or 'pacified'. 宁夏 Níngxià — 'the Xia pacified' — is the Yuan dynasty's name for the territory of the conquered Western Xia kingdom.
The letter after it is the office that issued the plate. 宁A belongs to Yinchuan, and 5 further letters are recorded below.
The colour of the plate is a separate fact from the characters: it says what kind of vehicle carries it, and the characters say nothing about it. The colour guide sets out what each of the 7 colours licenses.
Key facts
| Plate character | 宁 “ning” |
|---|---|
| Place | Ningxia |
| Kind | autonomous region |
| Capital | Yinchuan |
| City letters | 6 |
| Why this character | 宁 means 'peace' or 'pacified'. 宁夏 Níngxià — 'the Xia pacified' — is the Yuan dynasty's name for the territory of the conquered Western Xia kingdom. |
The city letters
- 宁A Yinchuan
- 宁B Shizuishan
- 宁C Wuzhong
- 宁D Guyuan
- 宁E Zhongwei
- 宁O Ningxia public security
| Prefix | Letter | City | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 宁A | A | Yinchuan | |
| 宁B | B | Shizuishan | |
| 宁C | C | Wuzhong | |
| 宁D | D | Guyuan | |
| 宁E | E | Zhongwei | |
| 宁O | O | Ningxia public security | Retired police series. |
Ningxia plates: questions people ask
- What does 宁 mean on a Chinese licence plate?
- 宁 (Níng, "ning") is the abbreviation for Ningxia. 宁 means 'peace' or 'pacified'. 宁夏 Níngxià — 'the Xia pacified' — is the Yuan dynasty's name for the territory of the conquered Western Xia kingdom.
- Which city is 宁A?
- Yinchuan. The letter A goes to the seat of government in almost every province, and the remaining letters were assigned to the other issuing offices.
- How many plate letters does Ningxia use?
- 6 are recorded here, A to O. A retired or reassigned letter keeps its note in the table.
Related
Sources for Ningxia
- Wikipedia (Chinese), 中华人民共和国民用机动车号牌 (Civil motor-vehicle registration plates of the People's Republic of China). Read . Carries the complete province-by-province table of issuing-office letters, with the retired and renumbered series footnoted to Chinese news and public-security sources. Used as a finding aid; wording here is our own.
- Wikipedia, Vehicle registration plates of China. Read . English list of prefixes; the article flags its own list as incomplete, so it is used here to cross-check the Chinese table rather than as the primary record.