Spring time is a season when earth and other living organisms including plants wake up after a long cold winter. The verb spring also means to jump or bounce up suddenly.
How to sign "spring" in American Sign Language. Use different signs whether you mean to suddenly jump or the season.
Meaning (also springtime): the season after winter and before summer, in which vegetation begins to appear, in the northern hemisphere from March to May and in the southern hemisphere from September to November.
Pronunciation (sign description): Dominant "flat O" hand (handshape) with its palm up (orientation) inside non-dominant loose fist (location) moves upward twice while dominant handshape tranforms into open hand (movement).
Related signs: WINTER, SUMMER, AUTUMN.
Meaning: To move, leap, or jump suddenly. See some possible synonyms: JUMP, LEAP, HOP, BOUND.
"Spring Dawn" calligraphic poetry -- a translation from the Chinese text to English to ASL.
To learn about rhymes in sign language, see the literary analysis of this poem.
First 100 words.
As you feel more comfortable with the first few hundreds of ASL signs, progress further with your vocabulary and learn signing more.