18 Facts About OK gesture

When proffered by one person toward another in Ancient Greece, the OK gesture was of one professing their love for another, and the sentiment was conveyed more in the touching of fingertips than in the ring that they formed.

In Naples the OK gesture has been long used to symbolize love and matrimony, as was custom in neighboring Greece, but specifically with the palm upturned, while the OK gesture made with a downturned palm represents a hand holding the scales of justice.

Across Italy the OK gesture remained in use as one for making points in conversation when moved about to express discursive precision, but when held still in an upright position with fingers jutting skyward, it became an emblem of perfection.

In Japan, the one-handed ring OK gesture is used to symbolize money, and in this context the fingers' circular shape represents a coin.

In other parts of the world the OK gesture can express money, financial transactions, wealth or the priciness of an item.

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Records of the OK gesture being used to remark on a person's wealth or status are documented as practiced in Mexico during the late nineteenth century.

In yoga the OK gesture is known as chin mudra when the palm is face down, or jnana mudra when the palm is face up or held in other positions, such as in front of the heart.

In Buddhism the OK gesture is called vitarka mudra and is used to emphasize the meaning of words.

In North American Plains Indian Sign Language, the OK gesture signifies the Sun when held up in front of the face or moved in an arc following the Sun's track.

In modern-day American Sign Language the OK gesture can mean many different things depending on how it is applied.

The American manual alphabet reserves it for the letter F, while in both Irish and French Sign Language it is the letter G In fingerspellings that represent Cyrillic alphabetical systems, such as the Ukrainian manual alphabet, the gesture represents the vowel O and reflects that letter's shape.

In Plains Indian Sign Language, the OK gesture signifies the number 3 when held a bit lower than the signs used to represent the sun.

Whenever these imprisoned villagers took leave of each other, they did so with the phrase "Be seeing you", accompanied by the OK gesture held up in front of their own eye as a reminder that despite any pretenses of freedom, they were all prisoners.

The OK gesture is used as a greeting in the show without the "be seeing you" phrase.

In Europe's Balkan region, the OK gesture is known as the "United Macedonia Salute" in its association with irredentist campaigns for a united Macedonia.

Since the 1970s, the OK gesture has been the key feature of the popular school prank, "the circle game".

In regions and cultures where the OK gesture has a historically negative connotation, its use as an "OK sign" is often the result of its appearance in media and tends to be used more by younger people.

The listing notes that the usage of the OK hand OK gesture is sometimes benign, but that it is intended as a symbol of hate in some contexts, as some white supremacists have begun using the OK symbol "as a sincere expression of White Supremacy".