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H in Cursive

Capital H and lowercase h 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 H by hand.

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

More letters: B in cursive · K in cursive · L 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 H Practice Sheet

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

Stroke order for a cursive capital H and a cursive lowercase h Two letterforms between dashed guide lines. The capital H is two stems from cap height to the baseline joined by a curved crossbar at x-height. The lowercase h is a tall stem to the ascender line that comes back down and turns into a single arch, exiting on the baseline. cap height x-height baseline capital H lowercase h
The filled dot is where the pen starts, the open circle where it lifts.

How to Write a Capital H in Cursive

  1. Start below cap height with a small curl and pull the first stem to the baseline.
  2. Finish it with a flick to the right.
  3. Start the second stem at cap height and bring it down to the baseline in the same way.
  4. Join the two with a curved crossbar at x-height.

The crossbar is curved, not straight. A ruler-straight bar makes a printed H, not a cursive one.

How to Write a Lowercase h in Cursive

  1. Start on the baseline and carry a stroke up to the ascender line.
  2. Come straight back down to the baseline.
  3. Push up into a single arch that reaches x-height.
  4. Bring the arch down to the baseline and exit right.

One arch, not two. The h is the same tall stem as the b and the l, finished differently.

Cursive h vs Cursive b

Both start with the same full-height stem, so the reader decides between them on what happens after it. The h pushes forward into an open arch and lands on the baseline; the b closes into a round bowl and exits high at x-height. If your handwriting is fast, the giveaway is the exit height β€” low means h, high means b.

Joining h to the Next Letter

The h exits on the baseline, which makes it one of the easier letters to leave. Getting into it is the harder half: after a high-exiting letter such as b, o, v, or w, you drop into the top of the stem from above instead of rising into it. That is why who and whole feel different from the.

Common Mistakes with Cursive H

  • A second arch. Two arches make it an m-like shape, not an h.
  • Exiting high. The h ends on the baseline; ending high turns it into a b.
  • A short stem. If the stem stops at x-height you have written an n.
  • A straight crossbar on the capital. Curve it.

Names Starting With H in Cursive

  • Hannah — ℋ𝒢𝓃𝓃𝒢𝒽
  • Henry — β„‹β„―π“ƒπ“‡π“Ž
  • Hazel — ℋ𝒢𝓏ℯ𝓁
  • Hudson — β„‹π“Šπ’Ήπ“ˆβ„΄π“ƒ

Words Beginning With h in Cursive

  • honey — π’½β„΄π“ƒβ„―π“Ž
  • harvest — π’½π’Άπ“‡π“‹β„―π“ˆπ“‰
  • hush — π’½π“Šπ“ˆπ’½

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 H FAQ

What is the cursive H?

The cursive H is the joined-up form of the letter H. The capital is two full-height stems linked by a curved crossbar at x-height; the lowercase is a tall stem up to the ascender line followed by one arch, exiting on the baseline. Online, “cursive H” also means the copy-and-paste characters (β„‹ and 𝒽) shown above.

How do you write h in cursive?

In short: up to the ascender, straight back down to the baseline, then push forward into one arch that reaches x-height and comes back down. It ends on the baseline, so the next letter joins normally. Full steps and the diagram are above.

Why does my cursive h look like a b?

You are closing the arch and exiting high. An h arch stays open and lands on the baseline; a b bowl closes and exits at x-height. Watch where the pen finishes, not the shape of the stem.

What is the difference between a cursive h and a cursive n?

Only stem height. Both end in the same arch; the h carries a full ascender stem first, the n starts at x-height. A short h is an n.

Can I copy and paste a cursive H?

Yes. The Cursive Script capital (β„‹) comes from the Letterlike Symbols block rather than the Mathematical Script block β€” Unicode had already encoded it there β€” but it copies and pastes like any other character.