Simplified Chinese Pokémon Set Codes: Full List

By CardSpicy Founder · October 3, 2026

Quick answer

CardSpicy lists its Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards under 16 printed set codes, from CBB1C through CBB6C for the Gem Pack volumes, through the CSV main sets, to the SV-P promos. Every Simplified Chinese set code ends in the letter C, and that trailing C is the only language test printed on the card itself.

This page is the list. If you want to know how a single code is put together — the group number, the treatment, the fraction after the slash — the page for that is how to read a Simplified Chinese set code. This one is the reference table: every code we hold, what product it belongs to, and where to see the cards.

Simplified Chinese Pokémon cards were built for the mainland China market rather than translated from an existing product line, so the products carry their own codes. That is why the codes look unfamiliar next to English or Japanese ones, and why a listing can be checked against a card in your hand without a photograph.

Every set code we track

Only codes present in our own catalogue are listed. Codes that exist elsewhere but that we have never held are left out rather than guessed at.

The first four families are separated by what kind of product they are, and that distinction does most of the work before you have read the rest of the code: a Gem Pack card belongs to a small all-foil set organised by Pokémon, a main-set card belongs to a numbered checklist, and a promo was distributed outside a checklist altogether.

What each family means for a buyer

Gem Pack (CBB1C–CBB6C). Six volumes, each built as an all-foil mini set. A Gem Pack card does not have one position in a set: it has a group per Pokémon and a ladder of treatments inside that group. The fraction after the slash is the length of that ladder, and the length changes between volumes, so the same fraction means different things in different volumes.

Collect 151 (151C). The Chinese take on the 151 set, released in four editions. It is the one Simplified Chinese family whose code is immediately readable to anyone who knows the English set, and its Art Rares are the most-collected cards in the format.

The CSV main sets (csv3C to csv10C). The numbered Scarlet & Violet era Chinese sets. These follow the convention collectors already know — a card number over the printed size of the set — with one twist that is worth knowing before you read a listing: the numerator can be larger than the denominator. A card numbered above the printed total is a secret rare, not a typo.

The earlier subsets (cs3aC, cs3bC, cs5bC, cs5.5C). Subsets released inside the same era, tracked separately from the main sets. They are the codes most often mistaken for main sets, because the prefix looks similar and the card numbers follow the same shape.

Promos (…/SV-P). Distributed outside the numbered sets. A promo and a main set can print the same Pokémon at wildly different scarcity, which is why the family is worth checking before anything else in the code.

What is deliberately not on this list

Three things are missing on purpose. Codes for the earliest Simplified Chinese products, which we have not held and therefore cannot describe from our own stock. The one-letter-and-number rarity suffixes that appear after the card number, which are printed on the card and are covered in the set code guide rather than here. And any code we have seen only in secondary sources, which is not a reliable enough footing for a table a buyer might check a purchase against.

Where a code appears in our catalogue, it appears above. Where it does not, that is a statement about our stock rather than about the code’s existence.

How to use this table

Read the code from a listing or from the card in your hand, find the family in the table, and you know what kind of product you are looking at. If the code is not here and the card matters to you, send us the code as it is printed and we will tell you what it is — the answer takes minutes and costs nothing.

Frequently asked questions

How do I know a card is Simplified Chinese just from the code?

Every Simplified Chinese set code ends in the letter C — CBB1C, csv3C, 151C. A code without a trailing C belongs to a different language’s product, and that is the first thing to check when a listing is ambiguous.

Why do Simplified Chinese cards have their own codes instead of translated ones?

Because the products were built for the mainland China market rather than converted from an existing line. The codes were assigned to those products, so the prefixes do not appear anywhere in the English or Japanese catalogue.

Is csv9.5C a real set code or a mistake?

It is real. Grand Terastal Gathering sits between the ninth and tenth numbered Chinese sets, and the decimal is how it is printed rather than an approximation of something else.

What does the fraction after the slash mean?

In the main sets it is the card’s position over the printed size of the numbered checklist, so 155/130 means the card sits past the end of that checklist and is a secret rare. In the Gem Pack volumes the same shape means something different — the treatment’s position over the length of that Pokémon’s group — which is why the family has to be read first.

Can I buy these sets as sealed product?

Sealed Simplified Chinese product is listed in the shop where we have it, and the 30th Celebration boxes are the current sealed release we hold. Everything else on this site is sold as a PSA 10 graded single.

Sources

Set codes quoted here are reproduced from our own listings and are not inferred from external sources. Prices quoted on this site are secondary-market observations at the dates cited.

Related reading

If you are holding a code and want to know what it decodes to, start with how to read a Simplified Chinese set code. If you are trying to work out whether a card is scarce, how many Simplified Chinese-exclusive cards there are is the count, and the per-character table is the breakdown.

Where to go next

• The CardSpicy card index — every card we track, with its PSA 10 population and market history (195 cards).
• The illustrator index — every artist behind those cards, card by card (110 artists).