See capital I and lowercase i in cursive. Capital I is a tall loop with a hooked base, unlike a printed I, and lowercase i is a short slant with a dot.
These steps follow the traditional school letters shown above. Other handwriting systems may form I differently, so stay consistent with the style you are learning.
Capital I in cursive
Start at the left near the midline and curve along the baseline to form the hooked base.
Rise on a long curve to the top line and round over the top.
Come back down the slant, meeting the base near the baseline to close the shape.
Lowercase i in cursive
Slant up from the baseline to the midline.
Retrace down to the baseline and curve up into the exit stroke.
Finish the word first, then come back and place the dot above the letter.
Common mistakes with cursive I
Writing a straight printed capital I, which removes the cursive loop entirely.
Confusing capital I with capital J; only J continues below the baseline.
Lifting the pen for the dot in the middle of a word and breaking the rhythm.
Common cursive i connections
in
is
it
il
ic
Words that start with I in cursive
ink
idea
island
imagine
Cursive I 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 I worksheet
Trace the pair on each line, then write it yourself on the empty line below. Print it at full page size.
