Cursive x

Stroke order

1. 1Start with a small hill at the midline and slant straight down to the baseline.
2. 2Curve out to the right without lifting the pen.
3. 3Once the word is finished, cross it with a straight slant from the midline down to the left.

Where it joins

The first stroke joins on both sides, so letters run through x; the crossing stroke is added at the end, like the cross of t. Few English words start with x: it comes far more often at the end of one, as in “box” and “fox”.

Mixed up with

Left uncrossed, x reads as half an n. Cross it once, through the middle.

• nn

Practise with

x-rayxylophoneboxfoxx-ray · xylophone · box · fox

Print a practice sheet for x →Capital X