King in Cursive

King runs 4 letters — 1 vowel against 3 consonants — and Cursive restyles every one of them above, each with its own permanent code point. The rarest letter in King is K — only 4 of the 26 English letters are used less often.

Spelled over the radio, King would begin "Kilo"; on a Scrabble rack its letters would add up to 9 points.

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

Expect cursive King to measure larger than it looks. 4 letters go in; a strict counter reads 7. 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) comes from Unicode's Letterlike Symbols block, encoded there years before a script alphabet existed. The remaining 3 sit out past U+1D400 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Supplement. Unicode declined to encode the same letter twice, so it left holes in the newer block wherever an older character would do.

Handwritten, what gives King its shape is the strokes that escape the middle band: k reaches above the top line and g drops below the baseline. Copying loses that entirely — these are individual characters, not a connected hand, so nothing links one letter to the next.