字形
Meanings
1
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.
Usage patterns
- 字形が整うfor a character's shape to be neat/well-formed
After a lot of practice, the shapes of my characters became neater.
- 字形が崩れるfor a character's shape to become distorted or sloppy
I wrote it in a hurry, so the character shapes came out sloppy.
- 字形を認識するto recognize a character's shape (e.g. in OCR)
This software can recognize handwritten character shapes.
- 字形が似ているfor character shapes to resemble each other
未 and 末 have similar shapes, so they are easy to mix up.