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浙 plates: Zhejiang, and what the letters mean
Facts checked
A plate beginning 浙 was registered in Zhejiang, a province. The character is Zhè, said roughly “juh”. 浙 is taken from the Zhe River (浙江), the old name of the Qiantang; the character carries a sense of 'bending', for the river's crooked course. The province's name means 'the Zhe river [region]'.
The letter after it is the office that issued the plate. 浙A belongs to Hangzhou, and 12 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 | 浙 “juh” |
|---|---|
| Place | Zhejiang |
| Kind | province |
| Capital | Hangzhou |
| City letters | 13 |
| Why this character | 浙 is taken from the Zhe River (浙江), the old name of the Qiantang; the character carries a sense of 'bending', for the river's crooked course. The province's name means 'the Zhe river [region]'. |
The city letters
- 浙A Hangzhou
- 浙B Ningbo
- 浙C Wenzhou
- 浙D Shaoxing
- 浙E Huzhou
- 浙F Jiaxing
- 浙G Jinhua
- 浙H Quzhou
- 浙J Taizhou
- 浙K Lishui
- 浙L Zhoushan
- 浙M Hangzhou
- 浙O Zhejiang provincial agencies and foreign-invested vehicles
| Prefix | Letter | City | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 浙A | A | Hangzhou | Since 1 March 2021 Hangzhou splits 浙A into a full city plate and a 'district' plate (浙A区域号牌) with different peak-hour restrictions; the district numbers put letters in fixed positions. |
| 浙B | B | Ningbo | |
| 浙C | C | Wenzhou | |
| 浙D | D | Shaoxing | |
| 浙E | E | Huzhou | |
| 浙F | F | Jiaxing | |
| 浙G | G | Jinhua | |
| 浙H | H | Quzhou | |
| 浙J | J | Taizhou | |
| 浙K | K | Lishui | |
| 浙L | L | Zhoushan | |
| 浙M | M | Hangzhou | Supplementary series for Hangzhou, opened 29 October 2024: the same city runs two letters because one letter's combinations ran short. It was first restricted to non-new-energy small cars and opened to small new-energy cars in January 2026. |
| 浙O | O | Zhejiang provincial agencies and foreign-invested vehicles | Retired. Provinces once ran an O series as a special civilian-numbered block for public-security and government vehicles; the privileges attached to it drew steady public criticism and most provinces withdrew it between 2003 and 2019. English Wikipedia records 浙O as the black-plate series for cars registered to foreign enterprises. |
Zhejiang plates: questions people ask
- What does 浙 mean on a Chinese licence plate?
- 浙 (Zhè, "juh") is the abbreviation for Zhejiang. 浙 is taken from the Zhe River (浙江), the old name of the Qiantang; the character carries a sense of 'bending', for the river's crooked course. The province's name means 'the Zhe river [region]'.
- Which city is 浙A?
- Hangzhou. 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 Zhejiang use?
- 13 are recorded here, A to O. A retired or reassigned letter keeps its note in the table.
Related
Sources for Zhejiang
- 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.