Taiwan Metas

This language is spoken in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China. Chinese tends to have more complicated characters than Japanese and Korean. Chinese characters tend to be made up of more strokes than Japanese. For example, 麼 and 名.

Language

Directional signs in Taiwan are green with white lettering. The major National Freeways are numbered in a white shape that resembles a flower. Taiwanese signs either feature Mandarin and English or just Mandarin.

Street Sign

In Taiwan, utility poles are a common sight. They are cylindrical and often have their lower section adorned with diagonal black and yellow stripes extending all the way to the ground.

Poles

A large number of Taiwanese utility poles feature a blue rectangle above the stripes. The bottom half of the blue rectangle should contain two rows of letter and number combinations. We are only concerned with the first letter in the first row- in the above image, this is a ‘K’. This letter alone can tell us fairly accurately where in Taiwan we are located. The map explains how to use this letter.

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