These steps follow the traditional school letters shown above. Other handwriting systems may form G differently, so stay consistent with the style you are learning.
Capital G in cursive
Start with a small loop at the top, then bring the stroke down the slant to the baseline.
Sweep left from the baseline and rise through the letter in a long crossing stroke.
Finish the crossing stroke to the right at the midline, keeping it level.
Lowercase g in cursive
Start at the midline and form a small closed oval, as in lowercase a.
Retrace the right side and continue straight down below the baseline.
Loop to the left and rise back through the stem to the baseline for the exit stroke.
Common mistakes with cursive G
Writing capital G with too many loops, so the crossing stroke gets lost.
Making the lower loop of lowercase g too short, which makes it look like a.
Swinging the lower loop too far left, so it collides with the letter before it.
Common cursive g connections
ga
ge
gi
gl
gr
Words that start with G in cursive
garden
green
gift
golden
Cursive G copy and paste
Click a character to copy it. These are Unicode characters, so they work in bios and messages but look different from the handwriting above. For a whole word, use the cursive generator.
Free cursive G worksheet
Trace the pair on each line, then write it yourself on the empty line below. Print it at full page size.
