Cursive G (Capital & Lowercase)

How to Write a Capital G in Cursive

1. Start low on the left. Put your pencil on the baseline at the far left of the letter.
2. Climb into a top loop. Make one long upstroke that slants to the right, then curve over to the left at the top line and come back down, crossing the upstroke to form a narrow loop.
3. Reach out to the right. From the bottom of the loop, swing an arm up and to the right until it nearly reaches the top line.
4. Pull the downstroke. Turn sharply and draw a slanted stroke down the right side of the letter to the baseline.
5. Curve back to the left. Round off along the baseline and curve up to the left, crossing the first upstroke, until you reach the midline at the left edge.
6. Draw the crossbar. Without lifting, turn and run a bar to the right across the whole letter, sloping gently down and ending just below the midline, past the downstroke.

How to Write a Lowercase g in Cursive

1. Start just below the midline. Begin at the top right of a small oval. In a word, the previous letter's stroke rises and curves over to this point.
2. Draw the oval. Curve left and down, counterclockwise, touch the baseline and come back up to close the oval at the top.
3. Drop the stem. Pull a straight, slanted stroke down the right side of the oval, past the baseline, to the descender line.
4. Loop to the left. Turn left at the descender line and curve back up, making a loop that crosses the stem at the baseline.
5. Exit to the right. Finish with a short stroke that leaves the loop at the baseline and rises toward the next letter.

Common Mistakes With Cursive G

G has more crossing strokes than most letters, so one small slip can make it hard to read.

• Starting the capital at the top. A capital G cursive letter begins on the baseline with a long upstroke. Starting at the top makes the loop come out the wrong way.
• Skipping the crossbar. The bar to the right is the last stroke of the capital G. Without it, the letter looks unfinished and is easy to misread.
• Making the top loop too wide. Keep the loop narrow and leaning with the slant. A round loop crowds the arm and squashes the rest of the letter.
• Leaving the oval open. On the lowercase g, a gap at the top of the oval turns it into a y.
• Looping the wrong way. The lower loop of the g turns to the left and crosses the stem at the baseline. A loop that closes on the right looks like a cursive q.
• A short tail. The stem should reach the descender line. Stop too early and the g starts to look like an a or a 9.

How G in Cursive Connects to Other Letters

The capital G doesn't join in this style. Its last stroke is the crossbar, which ends in the middle of the letter, so lift your pencil and start the next letter fresh, as in Grace or Gabe.

The lowercase g joins from the bottom of its loop. The loop crosses the stem right at the baseline, and the exit stroke rises from there into the next letter. In egg the first g's loop runs straight up and over into the oval of the second one.

Joining into a g after o, w, v or b means the stroke arrives at the midline. Run it across to the top of the oval and start the oval right there, as in dog. Don't drop to the baseline first.

Copy and Paste Cursive G Symbols

These G symbols are Unicode script characters, not real handwriting. They work in most bios, chats and names, but each one is separate, so they won't flow together the way cursive on paper does.

• 𝒢𝓁ℴ𝓌Copy
• 𝒢ℴ𝓇ℊℯℴ𝓊𝓈Copy
• 𝒢𝓇𝒶𝒸ℯCopy
• 𝒢ℴℴ𝒹 𝒱𝒾𝒷ℯ𝓈Copy

Words That Start With G

G words let you practice the oval and the long tail together. Start short and work up to words with a double g.

• Short words: go, get, gum, gap, gas, gift, game, goat
• Longer words: garden, giraffe, guitar, gentle, golden, grape, ginger, giant
• Double g and middle g: egg, bigger, foggy, wagon, tiger, dog, sugar, dragon
• Names and places: Grace, Gabe, George, Gina, Georgia, Greece, Glasgow, Germany

The cursive uppercase G mostly appears at the start of names and sentences, so drill it with real names. Write Grace, George and Gina five times each.