套牌车

套牌車
tàopáichē
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 car with cloned/fake license plates
  2. 2 vehicle bearing duplicated plates of another car

Examples

Jǐngfāng cháhuò le yī liàng tàopáichē.
Police seized a car with cloned license plates.
Tàopáichē shì wéifǎ de, huì bèi diàoxiāo jiàzhào.
Driving a plate-cloned car is illegal and can lead to license revocation.

Tips

culture
means 'to cover/sleeve over the plate' — copying a real plate from a same-model car so traffic cameras and tolls bill the innocent original owner. A specific Chinese flavor of license-plate fraud, separate from totally fake plates ().

Stroke Order

tào
pái
chē