traffic sign

signboard displaying information for road users

Class type of: physical sign, road traffic control device, signage Q170285

Facts

8 properties

Instance of: notation
Subclass of: physical sign, road traffic control device, signage, road equipment
Part of: traffic signing, traffic sign theft^[6]^[7]
Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7^[8]
Different from: road traffic control device, emergency sign^[10]^[11]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[12]
P14692: Nuremberg^[13]
Topic has template: Template:Traffic signs^[9]

🏷️ Also known as

en traffic sign en road sign en traffic sign board en street sign en roadsign en traffic signs en traffic board ar علامة مرور ar لافتة مرورية cs dopravní značky cs dopravní značka cs doparvní značka cs dopravní značení da vejskilt da vejtavle de Verkehrstafel de Richtzeichen de Vorschriftzeichen de Verkehrsschild de Schild

🔖 Identifiers · 39

Library of Congress authority ID: sh85136778
GND ID: 4062994-6
OpenAlex ID: C2983860417
Image (Wikimedia Commons): 14-08-13-helsinki-RalfR-N3S 1262-021.jpg ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID: 300211849
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/16696
BBC Things ID: d95565be-a643-4832-8861-a4b1bfd1bb7d
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 15397
BabelNet ID: 00042119n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11950066t
Dewey Decimal Classification: 346 (343.1–625.8, n=6)
ESCO skill ID: 267a2f67-f526-4432-8723-7d8bbd3ab1e6

Show all 39 identifiers +27

EuroVoc ID: 4162
Freebase ID: /m/01mqdt
Harper's tag: street-signs
IEV number: 845-31-061
Iconclass notation: 46C1151
JSTOR topic ID (archived): traffic-signs, street-signs
KBpedia ID: RoadSign
Museum-digital tag ID: 32802
NDL Authority ID: 00561698
NE.se ID: vägmärken
NL CR AUT ID: ph216329, ph119579
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007546213005171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX533388
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging: 11442
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID: 4001933
OpenStreetMap key: traffic_sign
PSH ID: 1079
Quora topic ID: Road-Signs-2
SVKKL authority ID: 0213751-dopravni-znaceni, h0002795-dopravni-znacky
TOPCMB ID: placa de transito
Topic's main category: Category:Traffic signs
UNSPSC code: 55121710
Vikidia article ID: fr:Panneau_de_signalisation_routière
Wellcome Collection concept ID: tpwke7ny
WikiKids ID: Verkeersbord
YSO ID: 518
Yale LUX ID: concept/302d97b8-2877-40ff-852b-1a81507e6f95

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🔗 Connections

Subtypes 58

traffic warning sign, highway location marker, mandatory sign, road signs in Germany, road signs in Japan, road signs in the United States, town sign, directional road sign +50 more

← Facet of 31

road signs in Japan, road signs in the United States, comparison of European road signs, road signs in India, road signs in South Korea, road signs in Israel, road signs in the Netherlands, road signs in Finland +23 more

← Is a list of 7

road signs in Germany, road signs in Romania, road signs in Australia, road signs in Greece, road signs in Latvia, road signs in Lithuania, road signs in Mauritius

← Has use 5

signal, Transport, FHWA Series fonts, SNV, Tratex

Examples 2

priority to the right, exit number

← Template has topic 2

Template:Traffic signs, Template:Ja Pref Route Sign

Different from 1

emergency sign

Instance of 1

notation

On focus list of Wikimedia project 1

Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

Part of 1

traffic sign theft

Topic has template 1

Template:Traffic signs

Topic's main category 1

Category:Traffic signs

← Category combines topics 1

Category:Road signs by country

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Traffic signs

← Class of object(s) of occurrence 1

traffic sign theft

← Different from 1

emergency sign

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Summary

traffic sign is a notation^[1]. It is a type of physical sign^[2], road traffic control device^[3], signage^[4], and road equipment^[5].

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Direct Wikidata claims

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ traffic sign is an instance of notation (Q2001982) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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4w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Sitelink count → 88

Wikipedia languages → ['an', 'ar', 'ast', 'az', 'bat_smg', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'commo

Harper's tag → street-signs

Claims rich → —

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7w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗

National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0) → XX533388

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9w ago · Il Nur · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

P14692 → Nuremberg

Described at URL → —

"/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Described at URL: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/560aa95b40f0b6036a00002a/the-highway-code-traffic-signs.pdf"
15w ago · Chalmd · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗

BBC Things ID → d95565be-a643-4832-8861-a4b1bfd1bb7d

"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ BBC Things ID: d95565be-a643-4832-8861-a4b1bfd1bb7d, Adding BBC Things ID"
18w ago · EUPBR · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Image → 14-08-13-helsinki-RalfR-N3S 1262-021.jpg

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20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗

SVKKL authority ID → 0213751-dopravni-znaceni, h0002795-dopravni-znacky

"/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0213751-dopravni-znaceni, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"

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