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C in Cursive

Capital C and lowercase c 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 C by hand.

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

More letters: A in cursive · E in cursive · S 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 C Practice Sheet

A printable worksheet for handwriting the letter C: 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 C Stroke Order

Stroke order for a cursive capital C and a cursive lowercase c Two letterforms between dashed guide lines. The capital C is one open curve from a small hook near cap height, sweeping left and round to the baseline and back out to the right. The lowercase c is the same open curve confined to the x-height, entering at the top and exiting on the baseline. cap height x-height baseline capital C lowercase c
The filled dot is where the pen starts, the open circle where it lifts.

How to Write a Capital C in Cursive

  1. Start just under the cap-height line with a small hook that curls left.
  2. Sweep left and down, keeping the curve wide and open.
  3. Round the bottom on the baseline and carry the stroke back up to the right.
  4. Stop at roughly x-height. The capital C does not connect forward β€” the next letter starts fresh.

The cursive capital C is one of ten capitals that do not join forward. Leaving a small gap after it is correct, not sloppy.

How to Write a Lowercase c in Cursive

  1. Start at the x-height line with a small hook curling left.
  2. Carry the curve left and down to the baseline.
  3. Round along the baseline and exit to the right, staying low.
  4. The exit sits on the baseline, so the next letter joins normally.

Unlike b, o, v, and w, the lowercase c exits at the baseline, which makes it one of the easiest letters to join out of.

Cursive c vs Cursive e

This is the most common misreading in lowercase cursive. Both are round strokes of the same height that exit on the baseline; the only difference is that the e closes into a loop and the c stays open. When people write quickly the c collapses shut and the word becomes ambiguous β€” ice and tee, cat and eat. Keep the mouth of the c visibly open.

Joining c to the Next Letter

The c is an easy letter to leave: it exits on the baseline, so any following letter starts from its normal entry stroke. The difficulty is on the way in. After a high-exiting letter like b, o, v, or w, you have to drop into the top of the c from above, which is where the curve tends to get squashed and closed.

Common Mistakes with Cursive C

  • Closing the curve. A closed c is an e. This is the single biggest source of unreadable cursive.
  • Making it too narrow. A pinched c reads as an i or an r at a glance.
  • Adding a bottom flick. The c exits along the baseline, not below it.
  • Starting at the baseline. Both cases start at the top and travel anticlockwise.

Names Starting With C in Cursive

  • Charlotte — π’žπ’½π’Άπ“‡π“β„΄π“‰π“‰β„―
  • Caleb — π’žπ’Άπ“β„―π’·
  • Clara — π’žπ“π’Άπ“‡π’Ά
  • Cooper — π’žβ„΄β„΄π“…β„―π“‡

Words Beginning With c in Cursive

  • candle — 𝒸𝒢𝓃𝒹𝓁ℯ
  • cloud — π’Έπ“β„΄π“Šπ’Ή
  • crisp — π’Έπ“‡π’Ύπ“ˆπ“…

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 C FAQ

What is the cursive C?

The cursive C is the joined-up form of the letter C: a single open curve travelling anticlockwise from top to baseline, in both cases. The capital fills the full cap height and does not connect to the letter after it; the lowercase sits inside the x-height and exits along the baseline. Online, “cursive C” also means the copy-and-paste characters (π’ž and 𝒸) shown above.

How do you write C in cursive?

In short: start at the top with a small leftward hook, sweep anticlockwise down and round the baseline, and come back out to the right. It is one stroke with no lift in either case. The step-by-step version and the stroke-order diagram are further up this page.

Why does my cursive c look like an e?

Because the curve is closing. An e is a c with a loop in it, so the moment the opening narrows the two letters merge. Slow down at the top of the stroke and leave the mouth of the c clearly open β€” it is a width problem, not a shape problem.

Does the cursive capital C join to the next letter?

No. C is one of the cursive capitals β€” along with A, D, F, G, O, Q, S, T, V, and W β€” that finish without a forward connector. The letter after it begins with its own entry stroke, so a visible gap after a capital C is correct.

Can I copy and paste a cursive C?

Yes, and C is a good illustration of how uneven Unicode is: the Old Style Script capital (β„­) and the Double-Struck capital (β„‚) both come from the Letterlike Symbols block rather than their own, because they were encoded years earlier. They paste like any other character.