Agreed, all of these needed words.
This yellow and green V-shaped symbol is pretty well known around the world as far as Japanese symbols go. It even has its own emoji (š°) that people often use to mark a beginner.
Never heard of this, If I saw this on a car I'd assume the person works for the library.
Itās the wakaba mark. Wakaba means sprout, which is also used as a colloquialism for newbie. š±
Itās why new accounts in Final Fantasy XIV have sprouts next to their names.
I donāt think itās fair to say that any symbols are self explanatory but these stand out and arenāt hard to recognise.
Iām from Europe, and I feel like our road signs are pretty intuitive, but theyāre not, nothing is intuitive really. Things only feel intuitive because it aligns with your expectations.
As an example, to me a pedestrian crossing is a blue sign with a person walking over a striped road.
This to me is intuitive. It has the lined crossing indicating a crosswalk. It has a person walking over it. Itās blue, so itās an informational marker.
When I visited the U.S. some years back, a particular sign kept cropping up everywhere, and I didnāt understand what it meant. It was yellow and said Ped Xing. After a few days I asked my friend who Ped Xing was, and why their name was signed everywhere. Why hadnāt I headed of them, if they seemingly did something to warrant their name being put all over the place? They had no idea what I was talking about until I pointed one out.
Mr/Ms Xing is actually Pedestrian Crossing. It sounds like a Chinese name to me, but somehow X is read as cross.
Our signs generally donāt have much text, and this just didnāt register as that for me. It didnāt help that many crossings werenāt striped, and not all crossings had Ped Xing watching over them. There was no pattern to infer meaning from.
It's pretty much the same as the green N sign in BC, though as far as I know only NS and BC require displaying a symbol for new drivers so we're relatively unique amongst Canadian provinces.
@lemmy.ca
A community to discuss and share information about typography and fonts
Sibling community:
Rules of conduct:
The usual ones on Lemmy and Mastodon. In short: be kind or at least respectful, no offensive language, no harassment, no spam.
(Icon: detail from the title of Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style. Banner: details from pages 6 and 12, ibid.)
go to feed...
@lemmy.ca
A community to discuss and share information about typography and fonts
Sibling community:
Rules of conduct:
The usual ones on Lemmy and Mastodon. In short: be kind or at least respectful, no offensive language, no harassment, no spam.
(Icon: detail from the title of Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style. Banner: details from pages 6 and 12, ibid.)
go to feed...
I would assume they can get away with not adding text because of limited immigration. How are people not brought up in Japan supposed to know what all these symbols mean.
save