How do you sign the letter X in BSL?

Name: How do you sign the letter X in BSL?
Uploaded: 2026-08-07T06:39:20.642664+00:00
Description: Extend the index finger of each hand and cross them, one over the other, forming an X. No movement. X is the 24th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

Extend the index finger of each hand and cross them, one over the other, forming an X. No movement. X is the 24th letter of the two-handed BSL alphabet.

The sign, demonstrated on video by a Deaf teacher.

X is exactly the shape of the letter: two straight fingers crossed. You will mostly spell it inside or at the end of a word — Alex, Max, Exeter.

You will fingerspell X in names like Xander and Xavier and places like Exeter (inside the word) and Wrexham. Practise it next to W and Y, its neighbours in the alphabet.

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