How do you sign the letter O in BSL?

Name: How do you sign the letter O in BSL?
Uploaded: 2026-08-07T06:35:50.347025+00:00
Description: Passive hand open, palm towards you. With your dominant index finger, touch the tip of your passive ring finger. No movement. O is the 15th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

Passive hand open, palm towards you. With your dominant index finger, touch the tip of your passive ring finger. No movement. O is the 15th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

The sign, demonstrated on video by a Deaf teacher.

Fourth vowel, fourth fingertip. Oliver and Olivia have been among the most popular names in the UK for years, so you will spell this one often.

You will fingerspell O in names like Oliver, Olivia and Oscar and places like Oxford, Oldham and Orkney. Practise it next to N and P, its neighbours in the alphabet.

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