How to write letter Y in print
Letter Y handwriting uses separate capital and small forms. Leave room for the lowercase descending tail below the body band.
Letterform reference
Capital Y and small y
How to write Y
Start with a clear capital and small print form. Follow the ordered strokes, then copy the letter without tracing.
Learn the capital and small cursive Y →
Capital Y
- Draw diagonally down from the upper left to the middle junction, then up to the upper right.
- Lift the pen and draw the central stem from the junction to the baseline.
Small y
- Draw the short left diagonal from x-height down to the baseline.
- Lift the pen, start on the upper right, and draw the long diagonal down-left into the descender space, finishing with a small leftward turn.
Watch for this: A small y whose right-hand stroke stops at the baseline resembles v. Extend the right-hand diagonal below the baseline and finish its small leftward turn.
Worksheet and print settings
Print at 100% (Actual size).
Letter shapes, words and corrections
Write capital Y
Meet two upper diagonals at the center, then continue with a stem to the baseline.
Write lowercase y
Slope down from the upper left and add the longer right diagonal continuing beneath the baseline.
Keep the form distinct
Compare v and y: y continues below the line; v ends at its low point.
Practice y in words
Copy “your” and “say”, leaving each letter separate. Circle the clearest y in the row and use its body size for your next attempt.