How do you sign the letter M in BSL?

Name: How do you sign the letter M in BSL?
Uploaded: 2026-08-07T06:35:15.839757+00:00
Description: Passive hand open, palm up. Lay three fingers of your dominant hand — index, middle and ring — flat across the passive palm. No movement. M is the 13th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

Passive hand open, palm up. Lay three fingers of your dominant hand — index, middle and ring — flat across the passive palm. No movement. M is the 13th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

The sign, demonstrated on video by a Deaf teacher.

M has three legs, N has two: count the fingers on the palm. Learn M and N one after the other so the difference is clear from the start.

You will fingerspell M in names like Muhammad, Mia and Max and places like Manchester, Milton Keynes and Margate. Practise it next to L and N, its neighbours in the alphabet.

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