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B in Cursive

Capital B and lowercase b in three cursive styles, plus two fancy variants people often compare them against. Click any letter to copy it, or scroll down for the stroke order if you are writing a cursive B by hand.

Capital B and lowercase b in three cursive styles and two fancy variants
StyleCapital BLowercase b
Cursive styles
Cursive Script
Bold Cursive
Old Style Script
Fancy variants (not cursive)
Double-Struck
Clean Monospace

More letters: D in cursive · K in cursive · W in cursive · all letters A–Z

Write Anything in Cursive

The table above is single letters. Type a word, a name, or a whole sentence here and get it in all five styles — click a row to copy it.

Cursive B Practice Sheet

A printable worksheet for handwriting the letter B: the stroke order at the top, then ruled lines with grey letters to trace and blank lines to finish on your own. For all 26 letters on one worksheet, use the cursive alphabet practice sheet.

Cursive B Stroke Order

Stroke order for a cursive capital B and a cursive lowercase b Two letterforms between dashed guide lines. The capital B is a single stem from cap height down to the baseline, with an upper bowl and a larger lower bowl added to its right. The lowercase b rises to the ascender line, drops back to the baseline, loops into a round bowl and exits at the top of the x-height rather than at the baseline. cap height x-height baseline capital B lowercase b
The filled dot is where the pen starts, the open circle where it lifts.

How to Write a Capital B in Cursive

  1. Start just below the cap-height line with a small entry curl to the right.
  2. Pull the stem straight down to the baseline and finish it with a short flick to the right.
  3. Return to the top of the stem and swing right into the upper bowl, closing it back on the stem at about x-height.
  4. From that join, draw the lower bowl wider and deeper than the upper one, closing it on the foot of the stem.

The two bowls are not the same size. A cursive capital B whose bowls match reads as a figure 8 with a stick; the lower bowl has to be visibly wider.

How to Write a Lowercase b in Cursive

  1. Start on the baseline and carry a long stroke all the way up to the ascender line.
  2. Come straight back down the same path to the baseline.
  3. Loop right into a full round bowl that fills the space between baseline and x-height.
  4. Close the bowl against the stem and exit from its top right, at x-height.

That high exit is the whole difficulty with b, and it is shared by only three other letters.

Cursive b vs Cursive v

Both finish with a small hook at the top of the x-height, and at speed that is all a reader has to go on. The difference is the ascender: b carries a full-height stem up to the ascender line before the bowl, while v never leaves the x-height. If your handwriting is cramped, the b stem is the stroke to exaggerate.

Joining b to the Next Letter

Like o, v, and w, the b hands off from the top of the x-height instead of the baseline. Round letters after it β€” a, o, d, g β€” have to be entered from above, which is why about and bought break down first when you write quickly. Tall letters after it (l, h, k) are the easy case: the exit feeds straight into the upstroke.

Common Mistakes with Cursive B

  • Bowls the same size. The classic capital B error β€” the lower bowl must be wider.
  • Ending the lowercase b at the baseline. This is what turns it into an l or a poorly closed o.
  • A flat bowl. The lowercase bowl is round, not oval; flattening it makes b read as v.
  • Lifting the pen before the bowl. Both cases are one continuous stroke.

Names Starting With B in Cursive

  • Benjamin — ℬℯ𝓃𝒿𝒢𝓂𝒾𝓃
  • Bella — ℬℯ𝓁𝓁𝒢
  • Brooke — ℬ𝓇ℴℴ𝓀ℯ
  • Blake — ℬ𝓁𝒢𝓀ℯ

Words Beginning With b in Cursive

  • bloom — 𝒷𝓁ℴℴ𝓂
  • butter — π’·π“Šπ“‰π“‰β„―π“‡
  • bright — π’·π“‡π’Ύβ„Šπ’½π“‰

Want a whole word or sentence? Use the cursive letters generator, or the cursive name generator for names. To practise these strokes on paper, print a cursive practice sheet.

Cursive B FAQ

What is the cursive B?

The cursive B is the joined-up form of the letter B. The capital is a single stem with two bowls stacked to its right, the lower one wider than the upper; the lowercase is a tall stem up to the ascender line followed by a round bowl that exits at the top of the x-height. Online, “cursive B” also means the copy-and-paste characters (ℬ and 𝒷) in the table above.

How do you write B in cursive?

In short: for the capital, one stem from cap height to the baseline, then an upper bowl and a wider lower bowl added on the right without lifting the pen. For the lowercase, up to the ascender, back down to the baseline, round the bowl, and exit at x-height. The full stroke-by-stroke breakdown and the diagram are above.

Why does my cursive b look like a v?

Because you are flattening the bowl and clipping the ascender. Both letters exit high at the x-height, so the reader distinguishes them by the tall stem and the roundness of the bowl. Make the stem reach the ascender line and keep the bowl circular, and the ambiguity disappears.

Can I copy and paste a cursive B?

Yes. Every B in the table is a Unicode character, not an image, so a click copies real text. Note that the Cursive Script capital (ℬ) comes from the Letterlike Symbols block rather than the Mathematical Script block, because Unicode had already encoded it there β€” it is a genuine character either way, just drawn by a different part of the font.

Which cursive B should I use in a signature?

Cursive Script (ℬ) is the closest to a handwritten capital B and the safest default. Bold Cursive (𝓑) survives better at small sizes, such as an email signature. Old Style Script (𝔅) is Fraktur and reads gothic rather than flowing, so it suits a logo more than a name.