How do you sign the letter J in BSL?

Name: How do you sign the letter J in BSL?
Description: Start as for I — your dominant index on the tip of the passive middle finger — then trace a J: slide down along the finger and curl round at the bottom. One of the two BSL letters with a movement. J is the 10th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

Start as for I — your dominant index on the tip of the passive middle finger — then trace a J: slide down along the finger and curl round at the bottom. One of the two BSL letters with a movement. J is the 10th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

The sign, demonstrated on video by a Deaf teacher.

J is an I with a hook: the curve at the end is what makes the letter. Watch the video in slow motion before copying it.

You will fingerspell J in names like Jack, Jessica and Jacob and places like Jarrow and Jersey. Practise it next to I and K, its neighbours in the alphabet.

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Letter H
Letter I
Letter K
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