We'd like to use analytics cookies to understand which symbols people look up, so we know what to research next. They are not used for advertising and we set none of them unless you say yes. What we store.
A band of broad white bars across the road.
Also known as: Zebra crossing Japan
Marks a Japanese pedestrian crossing on the carriageway, painted as bars without bounding lines.
Marks a crossing reserved for pedestrians.
Contexts: Road signage
Dropped its two bounding lines in a 1992 revision, which left the ladder pattern most countries use as a plain run of bars; the change was made so that water would drain rather than stand along the outer lines.
Contexts: Road signage
A run of broad bars painted parallel to the direction of travel and spaced evenly across the width of the road.