How to sign “Build” in ASL
BSL and ASL are different languages — this is the American sign. See the BSL sign for “Build” instead
Step by step
- Shape both hands into bent hands with your fingers curled at the knuckles, palms facing down.
- Hold your hands in front of your chest in neutral signing space.
- Lay one bent hand across the top of the other hand.
- Lift the lower hand over and stack it on top, moving upward with each layer.
- Alternate the hands several times, each stack rising higher, as if building a brick wall.
Practice tip
Think of stacking bricks: each hand lands on the last and the tower grows upward.
Fingerspell “Build”
Letter by letter — a handy backup if you forget the sign above. This is not the sign itself.
Text-based guide researched from established ASL references (Lifeprint, university and public-health materials) and rewritten in original words. Signer-created photos and videos are a planned future upgrade.