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What are the traffic signs?

Traffic signs include: warning signs, prohibition signs, indicating signs, guiding signs and tourist area signs.

1, warning sign

Play a warning role. Signs warn vehicles and pedestrians to pay attention to dangerous places. The color is black pattern with yellow background and black edge, and the shape is an equilateral triangle with upward vertex.

2. No sign

Play a role in prohibiting certain behaviors. Signs prohibiting or restricting the traffic behavior of vehicles and pedestrians. Except for individual signs, the colors are white background, red circle, red bar, black pattern and pattern layering; An equilateral triangle with a circle, an octagon and a downward vertex. Set in the road or near the intersection where it is necessary to prohibit or restrict the traffic behavior of vehicles and pedestrians.

3. Indicating signs

Play an indicating role. Signs indicating the movement of vehicles and pedestrians. The color is blue background and white pattern; Shapes are round, rectangular and square; Set in the road or near the intersection where vehicles and pedestrians need to be guided.

4. Guiding signs

Play a guiding role. Signs conveying information of road direction, location and distance. In addition to milestones and 100-meter piles, the color is generally blue and white; Expressway generally has a green background and a white pattern; Except for location identification signs, milestones and confluence signs, the shapes are usually rectangular and square. It is set near the road section or intersection where the direction, position and distance information of the road need to be transmitted.

5. Signs of tourist areas

Provide signs of direction and distance of tourist attractions. The color is brown background and white character pattern; The shape is rectangular and square, and the tourist area signs are divided into two categories: guide signs and tourist symbols, which are set near the road sections or intersections that need to indicate the direction and distance of tourist attractions.