Hu@Side-PalmBack Flatten

American Sign Language

Etymology

The same handshape for 3@Side-PalmForward (“three”) with the same orientation and similar movement as the other number signs from SmallO@Side-PalmBack Release (“eleven”) through OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten (“fifteen”).

Production

• This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:
  1. Posture the dominant hand in the “open U” (Hu) handshape about half an arm’s length in front of the shoulder, dominant palm facing back.
  2. Repeatedly flatten and extend the index and middle fingers, keeping them together.
  3. Posture the dominant hand in the “open A” handshape about half an arm’s length in front of the shoulder, dominant palm facing back.

GUH Hand	LUH Hand	LUH Move	GUH Move	GUH Hand	LUH Hand
GUH Palm	LUH Palm	Second	Second	GUH Palm	LUH Palm
GUH Position	LUH Separation	Third	Third
open-U			Flap-Flap	open-A
In				In

Adjective

(ASL gloss: THIRTEEN)

1. thirteen; 13