To sign orange in ASL, bring your dominant hand to your chin with the fingers curved open. Close it into a fist in front of the mouth and chin, then keep squeezing the fist open and closed a few times. The same sign means orange the fruit and orange the color.
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How to sign it
Handshape: a curved open hand that closes into a fist.
Location: in front of the mouth and chin.
Movement: squeeze the fist open and closed a few times.
Palm orientation: the palm faces to the side, toward the chin.
Tip to remember it
Lifeprint notes the same sign is used for orange the fruit and orange the color.
Use it in a sentence
CAT ORANGE.
The cat is orange.
This video squeezes a few times. Lifeprint describes the hand going from a C to an S handshape and squeezing twice.
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/o/orange.htm.
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