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Plate colour by vehicle class.
Also known as: Chinese plate colours
The Chinese convention classifying a vehicle by the colour of its registration plate.
Classifies a vehicle by the colour of its plate.
Contexts: Road signage
Assigns blue to ordinary passenger cars, yellow to large and goods vehicles and to learner cars, white to police and military, and black historically to foreign-registered vehicles; the class is legible at a distance at which no character can be read, which is the point of encoding it in colour at all.
Contexts: Road signage
A rectangular plate in one of several ground colours, with the characters in a contrasting tone: light on dark for ordinary cars and dark on light for large vehicles.
The character that locates the same vehicle.