Love in Cursive

Spelled out, Love is 2 vowels and 2 consonants across 4 letters, and the grid above gives each one its Cursive form and code point. The rarest letter in Love is V — only 5 of the 26 English letters are used less often.

Love's letters would score 7 points on a Scrabble rack, and a radio operator would open it with "Lima". Its initial L also moonlights as a Roman numeral worth 50.

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

There are two honest answers to "how long is cursive Love?" — 4 code points, or 5 UTF-16 code units. Character counters pick one or the other, so a bio field may or may not agree with the count you expect.

The gap comes from where the letters live. ℒ (L, U+2112), ℴ (o, U+2134) and ℯ (e, U+212F) come from a different block than the rest of Love. Unicode does not encode a character twice, and these eleven script letters already had homes in Letterlike Symbols, so the Mathematical Alphanumeric Supplement was drawn with gaps where they would have gone.

Written by hand rather than pasted, Love is shaped by which strokes leave the middle band: l reaches above the top line and o and v finish high, so the join into the next letter comes down from above. None of that survives the copy — the Unicode letters above are fixed shapes with no joining strokes between them.