How to sign tea in American Sign Language

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Sign Instructions:

With your dominant hand above your non-dominant hand, place the tips of your thumb and index fingers of your dominant hand in the gap inside of your curled in index finger of your non-dominant hand. Then, move the fingertips of your thumb and index fingers in a circular motion inside of that gap.

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Sequential Breakdown of tea

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First Frame of tea

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Dominant Handshapes for this sign

Dominant Handshape for tea
Touch your thumb to the index finger, creating a circle, with the other fingers extended straight up.

Non-Dominant Handshapes for this sign

Non-Dominant Handshape for tea
Keep your index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers together and straight, bend them all at the knuckle at a 90-degree angle, and reach your thumb to the tip of your index finger.

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