How do you sign “Office” in ASL?
OFFICE: OFFICE in American Sign Language (ASL) names the room where professional work is done. More than one form of the sign is in use, and every variation is shown on this page. The video and GIF below demonstrate the sign.
OFFICE — variant 1
OFFICE — variant 2
OFFICE — variant 3
When do you use the sign OFFICE?
OFFICE appears in workday descriptions, appointments, and directions inside buildings: the principal’s office, the doctor’s office, back-to-the-office debates. Work vocabulary clusters around it in Book 1’s school-places lesson. Appointment-making gives it steady adult use, since offices are where the calendar sends everyone eventually.
It appears in Lesson 10 of Book 1.
📖 OFFICE is taught in Lesson 10 of ASLI 1: Starting Out — Book 1 of the 216-Day Challenge →
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