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O in Cursive

Capital O and lowercase o 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 O by hand.

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

More letters: A in cursive · C 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 O Practice Sheet

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

Stroke order for a cursive capital O and a cursive lowercase o Two letterforms between dashed guide lines. The capital O is a large closed oval from cap height to baseline with a small entry hook at the top. The lowercase o is a closed oval filling the x-height, with a short exit stroke leaving from the top rather than the baseline. cap height x-height baseline capital O lowercase o
The filled dot is where the pen starts, the open circle where it lifts.

How to Write a Capital O in Cursive

  1. Start just below cap height with a small hook curling left.
  2. Sweep anticlockwise down and round the baseline.
  3. Carry the curve back up the right side to close the oval at the top.
  4. Finish at the top. The capital O does not join forward.

Close the oval. An open capital O reads as a capital C or U depending on where the gap falls.

How to Write a Lowercase o in Cursive

  1. Start at x-height and travel anticlockwise down to the baseline.
  2. Round the bottom and come up the right side.
  3. Close the oval against your starting point at x-height.
  4. Exit from the top of the letter, not from the baseline.

The o is one of only four lowercase letters that hand off from the top of the x-height.

Cursive o vs Cursive a

Both are anticlockwise ovals at x-height, and the difference is only what happens at the end. The a closes its bowl and drops a short stem to the baseline, exiting low; the o closes and exits from the top. In fast writing an a whose stem is clipped becomes an o, which is how road and read blur together.

Joining o to the Next Letter

This is the letter's defining difficulty. Along with b, v and w, the o exits at the top of the x-height, so the letter after it has to be entered from above rather than risen into from the baseline. Round letters are the worst case β€” book, door, foot β€” because they also want to start at the top.

Common Mistakes with Cursive O

  • Exiting at the baseline. This turns the o into an a and breaks the join with the next letter.
  • An open oval. An unclosed o is a u or a c depending on the gap.
  • Clockwise construction. The o is written anticlockwise like every other bowl.
  • An oval that is too narrow. A pinched o reads as an e or an i.

Names Starting With O in Cursive

  • Olivia — π’ͺ𝓁𝒾𝓋𝒾𝒢
  • Oliver — π’ͺ𝓁𝒾𝓋ℯ𝓇
  • Owen — π’ͺπ“Œβ„―π“ƒ
  • Opal — π’ͺ𝓅𝒢𝓁

Words Beginning With o in Cursive

  • ocean — ℴ𝒸ℯ𝒢𝓃
  • orbit — ℴ𝓇𝒷𝒾𝓉
  • olive — ℴ𝓁𝒾𝓋ℯ

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 O FAQ

What is the cursive O?

The cursive O is the joined-up form of the letter O: a closed anticlockwise oval in both cases. The capital fills the cap height and does not join forward; the lowercase fills the x-height and exits from its top rather than the baseline. Online, “cursive O” also means the copy-and-paste characters (π’ͺ and β„΄) above.

How do you write o in cursive?

In short: start at x-height, travel anticlockwise down and round the baseline, come back up and close the oval, then exit from the top. The high exit is the part people get wrong. Steps and the diagram are above.

Why is o hard to join in cursive?

Because it exits at the top of the x-height instead of the baseline. Only b, o, v and w do this, so the letter after an o has to be entered from above β€” which is why words like book and door are where handwriting first breaks down.

What is the difference between a cursive o and a cursive a?

The a adds a short stem on the right and exits at the baseline; the o has no stem and exits from the top. Both bowls are drawn identically.

Can I copy and paste a cursive o?

Yes. The lowercase Cursive Script o (β„΄) is one of three lowercase letters β€” with e and g β€” that Unicode placed in the Letterlike Symbols block rather than the Mathematical Script block, so it can look slightly different in weight from its neighbours. It pastes normally.