character shape; character form; glyph style
Refers to the visual shape or style of a written character, such as a kanji or kana, often in contexts like handwriting, typography, or character recognition.
The shape of this kanji is a bit distorted.
Software that recognizes the shape of handwritten characters.
After a lot of practice, the shapes of my characters became neater.
I wrote it in a hurry, so the character shapes came out sloppy.
This software can recognize handwritten character shapes.
未 and 末 have similar shapes, so they are easy to mix up.
dot-style character shape
Compound of 字 (character) and 形 (shape, form).