To sign beautiful in ASL, start with your dominant hand open and the fingers spread beside your face. Sweep the hand in a circle around the front of your face, closing the fingers together as it reaches the chin. End with the fingertips touching just below the mouth.
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How to sign it
Handshape: an open hand with the fingers spread, closing so the fingertips meet.
Location: in front of the face, ending at the chin.
Movement: circle the hand around the face and close the fingers at the chin.
Palm orientation: the palm faces your face.
Use it in a sentence
GRANDMA BEAUTIFUL.
Grandma is beautiful.
Lifeprint (ASL University) shows beautiful in video only and advises against signing it with a B handshape, which it calls Signed English rather than ASL. This page follows the AISA video.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/b/beautiful.htm.
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