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  2. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    The "fig sign" is an ancient gesture with many uses. The ILY sign, "I Love You" Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme. A man pointing at a photo. Fig sign is a gesture made with the hand and fingers curled and the thumb thrust between the middle and index fingers, or, rarely, the middle and ring fingers, forming the fist so that the thumb partly ...

  3. Gang sign - Wikipedia

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    Hand signals of the Hermanos de Pistoleros Latinos. A gang sign, also known as a gang signal, is a verbal or visual way gang members identify their affiliation. This can take many forms including slogans, hand signs, colored clothing, and graffiti to indicate that the signaller favors, or is a member of, the associated gang.

  4. American manual alphabet - Wikipedia

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    When fingerspelling, the hand is at shoulder height; it does not bounce with each letter. A double letter within a word is signed in different ways, through a bounce of the hand, a slide of the hand, or repeating the sign of a letter. [4] Letters are signed at a constant speed; a pause functions as a word divider. The first letter may be held ...

  5. Category:Hand gestures - Wikipedia

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  6. Fingerspelling - Wikipedia

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    The more common of the two [11] is mostly produced on one hand and can be traced back to alphabetic signs used in Europe from at least the early 15th century. Some manual representations of non-Roman scripts such as Chinese, Japanese , Devanagari (e.g. the Nepali manual alphabet ), Hebrew, Greek, Thai and Russian alphabets are based to some ...

  7. OK gesture - Wikipedia

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    In January 2020, the perpetrator of the Bærum mosque shooting flashed the Nazi salute and the OK hand sign during a court hearing. [84] He repeated the use of the sign at the start of his trial. [85] During the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, men in the crowd were pictured making the gesture. [86] [87] [88]

  8. Movement (sign language) - Wikipedia

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    American Sign Language uses about twenty movements. These include lateral motion in the various directions, twisting the wrist (supinating or pronating the hand), flexing the wrist, opening or closing the hand from or into various handshapes, circling, wriggling the fingers, approaching a location, touching, crossing, or stroking it, and linking, separating, or interchanging the hands.

  9. Sign of the horns - Wikipedia

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    The "sign of the horns" hand gesture is used in criminal gang subcultures to indicate membership or affiliation with Mara Salvatrucha. The significance is both the resemblance of an inverted "devil horns" to the Latin letter 'M', and in the broader demonic connotation, of fierceness and nonconformity.