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G in Cursive

Capital G and lowercase g 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 G by hand.

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

More letters: Q in cursive · Y in cursive · A 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 G Practice Sheet

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

Stroke order for a cursive capital G and a cursive lowercase g Two letterforms between dashed guide lines. The capital G is a wide open curve from cap height round to the baseline with a short bar turning back to the left. The lowercase g is a round bowl at x-height with a descender loop that swings left below the baseline. cap height x-height baseline capital G lowercase g
The filled dot is where the pen starts, the open circle where it lifts.

How to Write a Capital G in Cursive

  1. Start just below cap height with a small hook curling left.
  2. Sweep left and down in a wide open curve.
  3. Round the baseline and carry the stroke back up to the right.
  4. At about x-height turn the stroke back to the left into a short bar.

The little leftward bar is what separates a capital G from a capital C. Without it you have written a C.

How to Write a Lowercase g in Cursive

  1. Start at x-height and draw the bowl anticlockwise down to the baseline.
  2. Come back up the right side of the bowl to x-height.
  3. Drop straight down through the baseline into the descender.
  4. Loop left and come back up to the baseline to exit.

The descender loop swings to the left. That direction is the whole difference between g and q.

Cursive g vs Cursive q

Both are a bowl with a tail below the baseline, and both are round at x-height, so the tail is the only signal. The g loops left and comes back up to the baseline to join the next letter; the q tail goes down and kicks right, and in most handwriting it is not looped at all. If your g and q look alike, you are looping the q.

Joining g to the Next Letter

The descender loop returns to the baseline, so the g connects normally into whatever follows. The problem case is g followed by another descender β€” giggle, juggling β€” where two loops land on top of each other. Shifting the second loop slightly right keeps the word readable.

Common Mistakes with Cursive G

  • Looping the tail to the right. That is a q.
  • Leaving the bowl open. An open bowl plus a tail reads as a y.
  • A tail that does not return to the baseline. The next letter then has nothing to join onto.
  • Forgetting the bar on the capital. A capital G without it is a capital C.

Names Starting With G in Cursive

  • Grace — 𝒒𝓇𝒢𝒸ℯ
  • Gabriel — 𝒒𝒢𝒷𝓇𝒾ℯ𝓁
  • Gemma — 𝒒ℯ𝓂𝓂𝒢
  • Grant — 𝒒𝓇𝒢𝓃𝓉

Words Beginning With g in Cursive

  • garden — β„Šπ’Άπ“‡π’Ήβ„―π“ƒ
  • glow — β„Šπ“β„΄π“Œ
  • gentle — β„Šβ„―π“ƒπ“‰π“β„―

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 G FAQ

What is the cursive G?

The cursive G is the joined-up form of the letter G. The capital is a wide open curve, like a C, finished with a short bar turning back to the left. The lowercase is a round bowl at x-height with a descender loop that swings left and returns to the baseline. Online, “cursive G” also means the copy-and-paste characters (𝒒 and β„Š) above.

How do you write g in cursive?

In short: bowl first, anticlockwise from x-height down to the baseline and back up; then straight down through the baseline into a loop that swings left and comes back up to the baseline. One stroke, no lift. The steps and the diagram are above.

What is the difference between a cursive g and a cursive q?

The tail. The g loops left and returns to the baseline; the q drops and kicks right, usually without a loop. The bowls are identical, so the tail carries all the information.

Why does my cursive g look like a y?

The bowl is not closing. A y is an open v-shape over a descender loop, so an unclosed g bowl produces exactly that. Close the bowl against itself at x-height before you start the tail.

Can I copy and paste a cursive g?

Yes. The lowercase Cursive Script g (β„Š) is one of only three lowercase letters β€” with e and o β€” that Unicode encoded in the Letterlike Symbols block instead of the Mathematical Script block, so it may look a shade different from its neighbours. It still pastes normally.