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Note: There are many sign languages around the world. The answer below refers specifically to American Sign Language, which is the broadest form of sign languages in the United States and Canada as well as other parts of he world.

King is an initialized sign. It is a one-handed sign. It uses the K sign with your dominant hand beginning on the opposite shoulder. Make sure you hold the "K" upright, because if it is downward you are signing "prince" instead of "King." Then it moves in an outward downward half-arc to the hip of the same side of the body as your dominate hand. Make sure you do not flip the "k" over to a "p" when touching the lower hip.

If you are right handed, it begins at the left shoulder and ends at the right hip. If you are left handed it begins at the right shoulder and ends at the left hip. This represents a royal sash worn on the body. The same sign location and movement is used for Lord, if you use the initial L. If you use the initial Q it becomes Queen.

NOTE: ASL IS A CONCEPTUAL AND CONTEXTUAL LANGUAGE: THE "P" version of this sign can mean "Pageant", if the context provides that notion. However, when it comes to certain ideas, transliteration may be lost when signing conceptual signs that have more than one conceptual meaning. For example the signs: ME-SEE FINNISH PRINCE BEAUTIFUL (I saw a handsome prince), and ME-SEE FINNISH PAGEANT BEAUTIFUL (I saw a beauty-pageant) would be signed in the exact same manner... in cases like this, you should fingerspell the word "Prince" or " beauty-pageant", to adequately convey your proper meaning.

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