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.
この漢字の字形は少し崩れている。
The shape of this kanji is a bit distorted.
After a lot of practice, the shapes of my characters became neater.
手書き文字の字形を認識するソフト。
Software that recognizes the shape of handwritten characters.
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.
書体 names a whole font or calligraphic style (e.g. 楷書, ゴシック), whereas 字形 focuses on the particular shape a single character takes.
dot-style character shape
Compound of 字 (character) and 形 (shape, form).