BentB@IpsiChest-PalmBack-BentB@IpsiChest-PalmBack BentB@IpsiChest-PalmUp-BentB@IpsiChest-PalmUp

American Sign Language

Production

• This two-handed ASL sign is produced with the head dropping forward and down along with the hands:

  1. 

     Posture the nondominant hand in the “bent B” handshape on the nondominant side of the chest, nondominant palm facing back. Posture the dominant hand in the “bent B” handshape on the dominant side of the chest, dominant palm facing back.
  2. Roll the hands down the chest to the following posture.

  3. 

     Posture the nondominant hand in the “bent B” handshape on the nondominant side of the chest, nondominant palm facing up. Posture the dominant hand in the “bent B” handshape on the dominant side of the chest, dominant palm facing up.

Adjective

(ASL gloss: TIRED)

1. tired; sleepy