These steps follow the traditional school letters shown above. Other handwriting systems may form N differently, so stay consistent with the style you are learning.
Capital N in cursive
Start with a small hook at the top left and pull the stem down to the baseline.
Retrace up and round over into one tall arch.
Come down the right side and finish with a short exit curve on the baseline.
Lowercase n in cursive
Start at the baseline and round over the first hump at the midline.
Retrace up and make a second hump the same height.
Curve out of the last downstroke into the exit stroke.
Common mistakes with cursive N
Adding a third hump, which turns lowercase n into m.
Rounding the bottom instead of the top, which makes n look like u.
Making the capital arch so wide that the N stops reading as one letter.
Common cursive n connections
na
ne
ng
no
nt
Words that start with N in cursive
notebook
name
night
nature
Cursive N 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 N worksheet
Trace the pair on each line, then write it yourself on the empty line below. Print it at full page size.