Thank You in Cursive

Spelled out, Thank You is 3 vowels and 5 consonants across 8 letters, and the grid above gives each one its Cursive form and code point. The rarest letter in Thank You is K — only 4 of the 26 English letters are used less often.

Thank You's letters would score 18 points on a Scrabble rack, and a radio operator would open it with "Tango".

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

Thank You is 8 letters on screen and 15 units underneath. A field that stops you early is not rejecting the text — it is counting the storage rather than the letters, and cursive costs more of the former.

The gap comes from where the letters live. ℴ (o, U+2134) comes from Unicode's Letterlike Symbols block, encoded there years before a script alphabet existed. The remaining 7 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.

The handwritten form of Thank You is defined by what rises and falls out of the x-height: t, h and k reach above the top line, y drops below the baseline and o finishes high, so the join into the next letter comes down from above. None of that motion survives copying — each character arrives finished, so the letters stand apart rather than running together.