Traffic Characterplay

This image has been on posters all around Shanghai’s Jing’an District this past summer:

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Each character is related to traffic:

  • 让: yield
  • 车: car
  • 慢: slow
  • 停: stop

Actually, each character is merely “decorated” in the traffic theme. It’s not true “characterplay” in the sense that characters are constructed or represented in some non-standard way for artistic effect. I’ll take it, though!

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John Pasden

John is a Shanghai-based linguist and entrepreneur, founder of AllSet Learning.

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