How do you sign the letter Q in BSL?

Name: How do you sign the letter Q in BSL?
Uploaded: 2026-08-07T06:36:17.750778+00:00
Description: Hold your passive index finger pointing down or sideways. Hook the thumb and index finger of your dominant hand around it, forming the loop and tail of a Q. No movement. Q is the 17th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

Hold your passive index finger pointing down or sideways. Hook the thumb and index finger of your dominant hand around it, forming the loop and tail of a Q. No movement. Q is the 17th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

The sign, demonstrated on video by a Deaf teacher.

Q is a hooked loop around the passive index. It is almost always followed by U — the little finger — so practise the move from the hook to the fingertip.

You will fingerspell Q in names like Quinn and Quentin and places like Queensbury and Quorn. Practise it next to P and R, its neighbours in the alphabet.

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