Angel in Cursive

Spelled out, Angel is 2 vowels and 3 consonants across 5 letters, and the grid above gives each one its Cursive form and code point. The rarest letter in Angel is G — only 9 of the 26 English letters are used less often.

Angel's letters would score 6 points on a Scrabble rack, and a radio operator would open it with "Alfa". Its initial A also moonlights as a musical note name, a hexadecimal digit, one of the five vowels.

𝒜𝓃ℊℯ𝓁 — the whole of Angel, ready to copy from the card at the top.

Expect cursive Angel to measure larger than it looks. 5 letters go in; a strict counter reads 8. That is the difference between counting characters and counting the units they are stored in.

The gap comes from where the letters live. ℊ (g, U+210A) and ℯ (e, U+212F) come from Letterlike Symbols; Angel's remaining 3 come from the maths block past U+1D400. The two sets were added years apart, and the older one won — wherever a script letter already existed, the newer block simply left the slot empty.

Written by hand rather than pasted, Angel is shaped by which strokes leave the middle band: l reaches above the top line and g drops below the baseline. None of that survives the copy — the Unicode letters above are fixed shapes with no joining strokes between them.