信号 – Vocabulary details

信しん号ごう

Meanings

Noun

Verb (する, intransitive)

1. signal; signalling; signaling

教おそわった通とおりに操そう作さしても、向むこう側がわに信しん号ごうが届とどかないのだ。Even when operating it as taught, the signal does not reach the other side.

Noun

2. traffic light; traffic signal

だいぶ向むこうの方ほうに信しん号ごうがありますよ。There is a traffic light quite far over there.

Kanji used

信

belief

号

ID number

Pitch accent

し

んごう

Conjugations...Used in: 1693

Composed of

信しん

honesty; sincerity; trust; reliance; (religious) faith; devotion

号ごう

number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.

Used in vocabulary (98 in total)

赤あか信しん号ごう

red light (traffic); red light; signal to stop; sign of danger

電でん気き信しん号ごう

electrical signal

信しん号ごう機き

traffic light; traffic signal; signal (mechanism); semaphore (apparatus)

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Examples (23 in total)

信しん号ごうを増ぞう幅ふくする。

Amplify the signal.

ほら、信しん号ごう変かわっちゃうよ。

Look, the traffic light is going to change.

信しん号ごうが赤あかになった。

The traffic light changed to red.