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I in Cursive

Capital I and lowercase i 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 I by hand.

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

More letters: J in cursive · E 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 I Practice Sheet

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

Stroke order for a cursive capital I and a cursive lowercase i Two letterforms between dashed guide lines. The capital I is a tall looped stroke rising from the baseline, curling at cap height and returning to the baseline. The lowercase i is a short stroke from x-height to the baseline with a separate dot above it. cap height x-height baseline capital I lowercase i
The filled dot is where the pen starts, the open circle where it lifts.

How to Write a Capital I in Cursive

  1. Start on the baseline and carry a curving stroke up and to the right.
  2. Loop over at cap height and bring the stroke back down the left side.
  3. Cross your own upstroke on the way down.
  4. Land on the baseline and exit to the right.

The cursive capital I is a loop, not a bar. If you write a printed I with serifs in the middle of cursive text it stops the flow.

How to Write a Lowercase i in Cursive

  1. Start at x-height and pull a short stroke down to the baseline.
  2. Curve out to the right to exit.
  3. Finish the whole word.
  4. Only then go back and place the dot directly above the stroke.

The dot is a separate mark. Adding it before you finish the word is the most common cause of dots landing over the wrong letter.

Cursive i vs Cursive e

An undotted i and a squashed e are almost the same mark: a short stroke in the x-height band. The e has a loop in it and the i does not, but at speed that loop fills in. This is why the dot matters β€” it is not decoration, it is the only reliable difference between the two letters in fast handwriting.

Joining i to the Next Letter

The i exits on the baseline and joins into anything without difficulty, which is why it appears in so many common letter pairs. The real issue is dot placement across a word: dots drift right as you write, so a dot meant for the i in rain often ends up over the n. Place all dots after the word is finished.

Common Mistakes with Cursive I

  • Dotting as you go. The dot drifts onto the following letter.
  • A dot placed too high. Keep it just above x-height, not up at the ascender line.
  • Making the stroke too tall. An i that reaches the ascender is an l.
  • Curling the top. The lowercase i has no entry loop.

Names Starting With I in Cursive

  • Isabella — β„π“ˆπ’Άπ’·β„―π“π“π’Ά
  • Ivy — β„π“‹π“Ž
  • Isaac — β„π“ˆπ’Άπ’Άπ’Έ
  • Iris — β„π“‡π’Ύπ“ˆ

Words Beginning With i in Cursive

  • ivory — π’Ύπ“‹β„΄π“‡π“Ž
  • island — π’Ύπ“ˆπ“π’Άπ“ƒπ’Ή
  • inch — 𝒾𝓃𝒸𝒽

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 I FAQ

What is the cursive I?

The cursive I is the joined-up form of the letter I. The capital is a tall looped stroke that rises from the baseline, curls over at cap height and comes back down across itself. The lowercase is a short stroke inside the x-height with a dot added above it afterwards. Online, “cursive I” also means the copy-and-paste characters (ℐ and 𝒾) above.

How do you write i in cursive?

In short: a short stroke from x-height down to the baseline, exit right, then dot it once the word is complete. It is the simplest letter in the lowercase alphabet. The steps and the diagram are above.

When do you dot a cursive i?

After finishing the whole word, not as you reach the letter. Dotting mid-word interrupts the flow and the dot tends to land over the letter that follows, which is a common source of misread handwriting.

Why does my cursive i look like an e?

Because the i has nothing to distinguish it from a collapsed e except the dot. If the dot is missing or misplaced, the two are effectively the same mark. Dot every i.

Can I copy and paste a cursive I?

Yes. The Cursive Script capital (ℐ) lives in the Letterlike Symbols block rather than the Mathematical Script block, one of eight capitals Unicode encoded separately, but it pastes like any other character.