One thing that facinates me while travelling around China is the car license plate. Each license plate has a chinese character that signifies which province (or city/region/zone) the vehicle is from. Of course this is similar to Malaysia for example, where cars from different states are denoted by different starting alphabets.
What so interesting is that not all the characters are not directly derived from the name. Often they are also words which I couldn’t attach a sound to.
Here’s a round up of the characters.
- Anhui 皖 (wǎn)
- Beijin 京 (jīng)
- Chongqin � (yú)
- Fujian 闽 (mÇ�n)
- Gansu 甘 (gÄ�n)
- Guangdong 粤 (yuè)
- Guangxi 桂 (guì)
- Guizhou 贵 (guì)
- Hainan � (qióng)
- Hebei 冀 (jì)
- Heilongjiang 黑 (hēi)
- Henan 豫 (yù)
- Hubei 鄂 (è)
- Hunan 湘 (xiÄ�ng)
- Jiangxi 赣 (gàn)
- Jilin � (ji)
- Liaoning 辽 (liáo)
- Inner Mongolia 蒙 (měng)
- Ningxia å®Â? (nÃÂng)
- Qinghai � (qīng)
- Shaanxi 陕 (shǎn)
- Shandong é²� (lǔ)
- Shanghai 沪 (hù)
- Shanxi 晋 (jìn)
- Sichuan � (chu�n)
- Suzhou � (sū)
- Tianjin 津 (jīn)
- Tibet è—� (zàng)
- Xinjiang 新 (xīn)
- Yunnan 云 (yún)
- Zhejiang 浙 (zhè)
For more in-depth infomation, refer to the reference.
reference: Mainland Chinese licence plates
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