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ASL
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A | Make a first palm facing forward with your thumb beside your pointer . |
| B | Have your palm facing forward with your thumb going across the front. |
| C | Make a C shape with your hand. |
| D | Make an O shape with your hand, palm facing forward, and point you pointer finger up. |
| E | Palm facing forward, bend your fingers down not over your whole palm, and bend your thumb in. |
| F | Palm facing forward, put your pointer and thumb together, and have the rest of your fingers up. Like the ok sign. |
| G | Palm facing you, hand sideways, point your pointer finger like you're pointing to your left, and rest your thumb on your middle finger |
| H | Just like signing a G, but put your middle finger out with it, and rest your thumb on your ring finger. |
| I | Palm facing forward, make a fist, put your pinky finger up, and lay your thumb across your fingers. |
| J | Take the sign for I, going in a downward motion, make a J shape and twist your hand with it. |
| K | Palm facing you, have your hand sideways, make a peace sign, and have your thumb between your two fingers. |
| L | Palm facing forward, have your pointer pointing up , and your thumb out. |
| M | Palm facing out, make a fist, and have your thumb go under your first three fingers. |
| N | Palm facing out, make a fist, and have your thumb go under your first two fingers. |
| O | Make an O shape with your hand. |
| P | Palm facing you, have your hand in a pointing motion, and point down at an angle. |
| Q | Do the the sign for P, but put your thumb under your pointer with space between, and have it down at an angle. |
| R | Palm facing out, cross your pointer and middle finger, rest your thumb across your palm. |
| S | Palm facing out, make a fist with your thumb across the front. |
| T | Palm facing out, make a fist, have your thumb under your first finger. |
| U | Palm facing out, put your pointer and middle finger together pointing up, lay your thumb across your palm. |
| V | Palm facing out, make a peace sign, thumb laying across your palm. |
| W | Palm facing out, have your pointer, middle, and ring finger up, lay your thumb across your palm touching your pinky. |
| X | Palm facing out, make a fist, have your pointer finger up, and arch it like a hook. |
| Y | Palm facing out, have your pointer, middle and ring finger down, have your thumb and pink out. |
| Z | Palm facing out, point out and make zig zag like a Z shape. |
| Hello | Palm facing down, have your fingers together and your thumb across your palm. Put it up to your forehead at a slight angle and basically salute. |
| Goodbye | Wave your hand. |
| Theirs | Palm facing out, put your hand over to your left side, move it in front of your body like wiping something. |
| Mine | Pat your chest |
| Your | Fingers together, put your hand out as if you were telling someone to stop. |
| Name | Bring both hands up with your pointer and middle fingers out and together. Left hand pointing out and right had pointed to the left, tap you fingers on your left hand with your right 2x. |
| What | Bring both hands up with palms up and shake your hands from side to side. |
| You | Point at the person you are talking to |
| Me/I | Point to yourself |
| Him Her | Palm facing out, pat the air on your left side. Palm facing out, pat the air on your left side but your hand facing more forward. |
| His Hers | Palm facing out, pat the air on your right side, your hand facing forward. Palm facing out, pat the air on your right side but more on the right side, your hand facing forward, |
| 1 | Palm facing out, put your pointer finger up. |
| 2 | Palm facing out, put your pointer and middle finger up. |
| 3 | Palm facing out, put your pointer, middle, and thumb out. |
| 4 | Palm facing out, keep your thumb on your palm and have the rest of your fingers up. |
| 5 | Palm facing out, have all five fingers up. |
| 6 | Palm facing out, have all your fingers up and touch your thumb to your pinky. |
| 7 | Palm facing out, have all your fingers up and touch your thumb to your ring finger. |
| 8 | Palm facing out, have all your fingers up and touch your thumb to your middle finger. |
| 9 | Palm facing out, have all your fingers up and touch your thumb to your pointer. |
| 10 | Thumbs up. |
| 11 | Palm facing out, put your pointer finger up 2x. |
| 12 | Palm facing out, put your pointer and middle finger up 2x. |
| 13 | Palm facing out, have your thumb out, and put your pointer and middle finger in a air quotation motion. |
| 14 | Palm facing out, have your thumb on your palm and have your other four fingers up. Do the air quotation motion with all fingers. |
| 15 | Do the same for 14 but have your thumb out. |
| 16 | Palm facing out, have all your fingers up and touch your thumb to your pinky and shake your wrist in a downward motion. |
| 17 | Palm facing out, have all your fingers up and touch your thumb to your ring finger and shake your wrist in a downward motion. |
| 18 | Palm facing out, have all your fingers up and touch your thumb to your middle finger and shake your wrist in a downward motion. |
| 19 | Palm facing out, have all your fingers up and touch your thumb to your pointer finger and shake your wrist in a downward motion. |
| Girl | Have your hand in a thumbs up position. In a downward motion along your jawline. drag your thumb from below your ear to your chin. |
| Boy | Have your hand in front of your forehead and move your hand in kind of a talking motion. |
| Woman | Have your hand in a thumbs up potion and tap and slightly drag down your thumb on your chin. After that have all fingers out, palm down and put your thumb to your chest. |
| Man | Palm facing your left side, have all your fingers up and put your thumb on your forehead and then bring it to your chest |
| Family | Have both hands in the sign for F. Have your thumb slightly touch your other one. Make a circle going out, ending with your pinkies touching. |
| Mother | Palm facing your left side, have all your fingers up and bring your hand up to your face and have your thumb touch your chin. |
| Father | Palm facing your left side, have all your fingers up and bring your hand up to your face and have your thumb touch your forehead. |
| Son | Do the same thing for boy but at the same time bring up your left arm as if your were checking your watch. Bring down your hand, palm facing up and rest it on your arm as if you were signing for baby. |
| Brother | Have your pointer and thumb out on both hands. Have your right hand up to your face, thumb touching your forehead. Have your left hand up and bring your right hand down and set it on your wrist. |
| Sister | Do the sign for girl but don't take your hand completely down your face, in a quick motion slightly swipe the bottom of your chin and do the ending the the sign brother. |
| Aunt | Do the sign for girl but have your thumb in an upward position and make a straight line down the side of your face. |
| Uncle | Have your pointer and middle finger out and together. Bring your hand up to your head, slightly above your ear and do small circles with your hand, palm facing out. |
| Cousin (either gender) | Have your hand in a cupped C shape. Bring your hand up towards your face about ear level. Make sure your palm is facing forward and make tiny circles clockwise towards your head. |
| Cousin (male) | Do the same thing for cousin (either gender) but have your hand at forehead level. |
| Cousin (female) | Do the same thing for cousin (either gender) but have your hand slightly below your chin. |
| Grandmother | Do the same thing for mother but after you bring your hand up to your chin have your hand do two little jumps forward. |
| Grandfather | Do the sign for father but instead of tapping your forehead with your thumb have your hand do two little jumps forward. |
| Niece | Have your pointer and middle finger out but have them kind of down. Bring your fingers up to your face and do two little strokes outward across your chin. |
| Nephew | Do the same hand position for niece but bring it up beside your head and slightly shake your hand. |
| Husband | Have both hands in a wide C shape with all your fingers together. Bring your right hand up to your have and touch the side of your hand to your forehead and then bring your hand down and slightly clasp your hands. |
| Sorry | Put your hand in a fist on your chest and move in a clockwise direction |
| Thank you | Palm facing you, touch your hand to your chin and go down in an arched motion. |
| None | Have your hands in an O shape and cross them and uncross them. |
| Please | Put your hand on your chest and move your hand in a clockwise direction. |
| Language | with both of your hands together. hold your "L" hands together and pull them apart. Use a slight twisting/shaking movement of the forearms as you pull the "L"-hands apart. |
| ASL | Do the letters for A, S, and L |
| English | With your hands in a cupped shape, put your right hand over your left and bring your hands towards your body. |
| Speak/Talk | Take the four fingers on your dominant hand and tap them repeatedly on your chin. |
| Listen | |
| Sign/Talk in asl | |
| Pay attention | |
| Communicate | Hold both of your hands in a C shape. Move your hands back and forth. One hand going the opposite way of the other. |
| Chat | Take both of your hands, palms facing the sky and move your hands back and forth like your would for communicate. |
| Deaf | With your hand facing forward, first put your finger in front of your ear and then to the side of your chin. |
| Hearing/Non-deaf | With your hand horizontal to the ground, have your pointer finger out and make a rotating motion forward. |
| Hard of hearing | With your hand and chest level, have two fingers out, palm facing the left, take and move your hand to your left (middle of your chest) and then to your right. |
| Interpreter | Have both of your hands in the F shape where the circle is facing the ground. Make sure your thumbs are touch and twist your dominant hand in an up and down motion. |
| Feel/feeling and feel | Take your dominant hand (open) and have your middle finger in slightly more than the rest of your fingers. Make sure your palm is facing your chest. Start your middle finger in the center of your chest and flick your wrist up . Do that twice. |
| Happy | Take both of your hands, palm facing your chest with all your fingers out and make a flicking up motion with your hands like with feel. |
| Sad | With both hands, palms facing you, drag your hands down in front of your face and make a sad face. |
| Angry | With your dominant hand in a claw shape, palms facing you, angrily bring your hand up to your face. |
| Excited | Do the same motion for "feel" but use both hands on each side of your chest. not at the same time, one hand first then the other. |
| Sick | Do the hand shape for feel with both hands, then place your finger on your forehead and one on your stomach |
| Sick (of studying) | Do the same thing for sick but only use the hand you had on your forehead. Bring your head back and twist it forward. |
| Tired | |
| Nervous | Bring both of your hands up chest hight and shake them |
| So-So | Take your dominant hand and twist your wrist side to side with your palm facing the ground. |
| Depressed | Take both of your hands and run them down the front of your body. |
| Fine | Have your hand open with your palm facing your left and tap your chest with your thumb. |
| Color | Bring your hand up to your face and tap your fingers on your chin. |
| Red | Have your pointer finger out, touch your finger to your chin then bring it slightly down and make an r shape. |
| Pink | Make your hand into the P shape, do the same thing for red but instead of your pointer use your middle finger and put it down with the others. |
| Blue | Make the letter "B" and have your palm facing your left side. Twist your hand as if your were waving like a queen. |
| Green | |
| Purple | Make your hand into the "p" shape and and shake your hand in a downward motion. |
| Yellow | Make your hand into the "y" shape and shake your hand down like for Purple |
| Orange | Bring your hand up to your face below your chin and squeeze your hand. |
| Black | Run your pointer finger across your forehead. |
| White | |
| Gray | |
| Brown | Making the "b" shape run the side of your hand down the side of your face. |
| Yes | Have your dominant hand in a fist and move your hand in a nodding motion like you would nod your head. |
| No | Have your pointer, thumb, and middle finger out with the rest down. move your hand in a talking motion. |
| Maybe | Shrug and with your palms facing the sky move your hands up and down at different times. |
| Don't know | Shake your head and bring your hand up to your head as if you were saying hello. |
| Who | Bring your hand in front of your face, palm facing your left, and make the "r" shape two times. |
| Why | |
| Which | Do the hand motion for maybe but have your hands in the "10" hand shape. |
| How | |
| Favorite | Do like you were for color but only touch your chin with your middle finger. |
| Like | |
| Dislike | |
| Want | |
| Don't want | |
| School | With your hands horizontal clap |
| Grade/level | With your hands horizontal, have your fingertips touching and then pull you hands away. Still being equal with each other. |
| Pre-school | |
| Kindergarten | |
| Elementary | |
| Middle School | |
| High School | |
| College | |
| University | |
| Teacher | |
| Student | |
| Principal | |
| Vice Principal | |
| Counselor | |
| Subject | |
| Learn/Learning | |
| Study | hold up your non-dominant palm flat and horizontally as it is facing you. Then take your dominant hand in the form of the ASL number 5 sign and wiggle your fingers in front of your non-dominant palm as your dominant hand moves back and forth a couple of |
| Math | form flat ASL letter M sign with both hands. Then pivot them such that the fingertips of both hands face each other. Swing both 'M' hands towards each other and have both 'M's meet in the middle. |
| Science | form both hands into the ASL letter A sign. Then hold them up in front of you, palm sides facing out, and take turns dipping them in toward the center as they rotate inward alternatingly. |
| Physical Education | |
| Gym | |
| Art | take your non-dominant hand flat in front of you, with the palm facing your body as if it were a canvas. Take your pinkie finger from your dominant hand outstretched, and scribble with it on your non-dominant hand as if you were drawing. |
| Library | Circle an "L" in the air clockwise. |
| Librarian | Same thing for Library but do only to circles, then have your palms facing in other and move your hands strait down. |
| Office | letter 'O' sign with both hands, then position your forearms parallel in front of your body and then perpendicular to your body, as if forming the sign for box or room, but with your hands forming the letter 'O'. |
| Classroom | |
| In | make your non-dominant hand into a cup shape, then with your dominant hand's fingers touching, place your fingers inside the cup. |
| Near | Start with your two hands out in front of your body, with your palms flat and facing your body. Place your dominant hand a little in front of your non-dominant hand. Then bring your dominant hand toward your dominant hand, bringing it near your body |
| Go | "throwing" the index fingers forward. The tips of the index fingers tracing an arc in the air. |
| Write | uses a quick scribbling movement across the palm of the left hand. The tip of the index finger is touching the dip of the thumb. |
| Watch/Look | using a palm down "V"-hand shape, move your hand forward. |
Created by:
Jade202
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