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Eight standardised arm positions.
Also known as: Chinese traffic police gestures
The eight arm-and-hand signals a Chinese traffic officer uses to direct traffic, standardised nationally.
Directs traffic at a junction by a fixed set of eight arm positions.
Contexts: Road signage
Is a closed and published set rather than an improvised vocabulary: the eight signals — stop, go straight, left turn, left turn waiting, right turn, lane change, slow down and pull over — are defined in the regulation with the arm angles specified, and a driver is expected to know them as they would a sign.
Contexts: Road signage
Overrides the signals at a junction where both are present, which is the property that makes learning them consequential rather than decorative.
Contexts: Road signage
A standing figure shown in eight distinct arm positions, each with the arms held at a stated angle and the palms turned a stated way.
The first of the eight signals in the set.