OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten

American Sign Language

Etymology

Similar handshape as 5@Side-PalmBack (“five”) with similar movement as the other number signs from SmallO@Side-PalmBack Release (“eleven”) through B@Side-PalmBack Flatten (“fourteen”).

Production

• This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:
  1. Posture the dominant hand in the “open B” handshape about half an arm’s length in front of the shoulder, dominant palm facing back.
  2. Flatten and extend the four fingers (not including the thumb) at least twice, keeping them together.
  3. Posture the dominant hand in a bent version of the “open B” shape, with the four fingers bent at the proximal joint but otherwise extended and together, thumb extended to make a flat hand with a gap between the thumb and the edge of the hand about half an arm’s length in front of the shoulder, dominant palm facing back.

Number

(ASL gloss: FIFTEEN)

1. fifteen; 15

See also

• Previous number: B@Side-PalmBack Flatten (“fourteen”)
• Next number: 6@Side-PalmBack 6@Side-PalmForward (“sixteen”)