Signing Savvy, Your Sign Language Resource

What is being signed (English Meaning)

HEARING (as in "a hearing person")

Sign Type

Available to full members. Login or sign up now!

Sign Description

Available to full members. Login or sign up now!

Memory Aid

Available to full members. Login or sign up now!

This Sign is Used to Say (Sign Synonyms)

• ADDRESS (as in "to give a speech")
• COMMENT
• COMMENTS
• HEARING (as in "a hearing person")
• HEARING PERSON
• PRONOUNCE
• PRONUNCIATION
• PUBLIC
• REMARK
• SAY
• SPEAK (as in "talk")
• SPEAKING
• STATE (as in "statement")
• STATEMENT (as in "to speak")
• TELL (as in "to tell someone")
• UTTER

Examples of Usage

Watch ASL Sentence +

English Sentence

Is your teacher deaf or hearing?

ASL Gloss

YOUR TEACHER DEAF HEARING WHICH?

Watch ASL Sentence +

English Sentence

Dr. Charles Nicolle was born hearing but became deaf by the age of 20. He was the first deaf person to receive a Nobel Prize. It was for discovering Typhus is spread by lice.

ASL Gloss

D-R C-H-A-R-L-E-S N-I-C-O-L-L-E HE BORN HEARING EAR DETERIORATE AGE 20 FULL DEAF. HE FIRST DEAF GET N-O-B-E-L P-R-I-Z-E FOR DISCOVERING T-Y-P-H-U-S OUTBREAK START HOW? FROM L-I-C-E

Watch ASL Sentence +

English Sentence

My teacher is hearing, but is a CODA.

ASL Gloss

MY TEACHER HEARING BUT HERSELF CODA.

Sign Variations for this Word

• Variation 1 - ASL
• Variation 2 - Fingerspelled

Add to Word List

The ability to create word lists is available full members. Login or sign up now! to use this feature.