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How do you sign the letter D in BSL?

Hold your passive index finger upright. Curve the thumb and fingers of your dominant hand and rest them against that finger, so the two hands draw a D. No movement. D is the 4th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

The sign, demonstrated on video by a Deaf teacher.

D is drawn against the passive index: the straight stroke is the passive finger, the curve is your dominant hand.

You will fingerspell D in names like Daniel, Daisy and Dylan and places like Dover, Derby and Dundee. Practise it next to C and E, its neighbours in the alphabet.

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