TANGERINE: How to sign "tangerine"

 

Tangerine can be signed by depicting the peeling of a tangerine.

While "tangerine" isn't common in ASL -- we can see signs for tangerine in some other signed languages in which the signer typically uses a depictive "peeling of a tangerine" approach. The "peeling a tangerine" sign makes a lot of intuitive sense in the same way that the ASL sign for "banana" is very intuitive.

TANGERINE:
Hold a non-dominant S hand (thumb-side up, palm toward the dominant side) in the neutral signing space as if depicting a tangerine. Use a modified "A" hand (with the thumb and index finger adjusted as if they were gripping something) to peel the tangerine (twice, using a forward -- away from you -- peeling movement).

 



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