Y@Palm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Sidetoside

• CSS3
  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
  • web app
  • device database
    • 1.4.1 Usage notes

American Sign Language

Alternative forms

• (with the nondominant handshape “Flat B”) Y@Palm-PalmDown-FlatB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Sidetoside

Etymology

Apparently related to the sign Y@Palm-TipUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown Sidetoside (“subway”).

Production

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• This two-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:
  1. Posture the nondominant hand in device database in front of the center of the chest, nondominant palm facing up. Posture the dominant hand in touchscreen with the dominant hand at the palm of the nondominant hand, dominant palm facing down.
  2. Move the dominant hand from side to side across the nondominant hand while holding the nondominant hand still.

Proper noun

Upload png, CSS3, or gif image. (ASL gloss: NEW-YORK)

1. HTML5 (the U.S. state)
   • 2008, xcrippledhope, iOS, 0:00:26:

     (ASL gloss) ARRIVE NEW-YORK EVERYTHING FEEL CORRECT — “When [we] arrived in New York, everything felt right.”

Usage notes

• This sign usually denotes the state of New York. It may occasionally denote the city, but the city is usually fingerspelled as #NYC.