handwriting

English

Etymology

hand +‎ writing

Noun

handwriting (usually uncountable; plural handwritings)

1. The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
2. The characteristic writing of a particular person.
   • 1895, F. Marion Crawford, Taquisara^[1]:

     It was still early in the morning when Elettra brought her a letter, bearing the postmark of the city, and addressed in one of those small, clear handwritings which seem naturally to belong to scholars and students.

   • 1893, Joseph B. Lightfoot, Essays on "Supernatural Religion"^[2]:

     In some handwritings of the seventh or eighth century, where the letters have a round form, the substitution of OT for EG would be far from difficult.

   • 1914, P. S. Allen, The Age of Erasmus^[3]:

     Great libraries are only just beginning to gather up the manuscript minutiae which their books contain; to identify handwritings; to decipher monograms; to collect facts.

3. Text that was written by hand.

Synonyms

• (the act or process of writing done by hand): longhand
• (text written by hand): manuscript

Related terms

• handwritten
• handwrite
• handwrit

Translations

act or process of writing with the hand

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手寫 (cmn), 手写 (cmn) (shǒuxiě)

• Dutch: handschrift (nl) n
• Finnish: käsinkirjoitus (fi)
• French: écriture de main (fr)
• German: Handschrift (de) f
• Greek: γραφή (el) (grafí) f
• Indonesian: bekas tangan (id)
• Irish: lámhscríbhneoireacht (ga) f, scríbhneoireacht (ga) f, scríobh (ga) m

• Japanese: 手書き (ja) (てがき, tegaki)
• Jèrriais: êcrituthe f
• Korean: 육필 (ko) (yukpil)
• Persian: دست‌نویسی (fa) (dast-nevisi)
• Romanian: scriere de mână (ro), scris de mână (ro)
• Russian: собственноручная запись (ru) (sobstvennorúčnaja zápis’) f
• Serbo-Croatian: rȕkopīs (sh) m
• Tagalog: sulat (tl)

characteristic writing of a particular person

• Arabic: خط يد (ar) (khaTT yad) m, خط (ar) (khaTT) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筆跡 (cmn), 笔迹 (cmn) (bǐjì)

• Danish: håndskrift (da) c
• Dutch: handschrift (nl) n
• Finnish: käsiala (fi)
• German: Handschrift (de) f
• Greek: γραφή (el) (grafí) f, γράψιμο (el) (grápsimo) n, γραφικός χαρακτήρας (el) (grafikós charaktíras) m
• Italian: calligrafia (it) f
• Japanese: 筆跡 (ja) (ひっせき, hisseki)

• Korean: 필적 (ko) (piljeok)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ده‌سوخه‌ت (ku) (desuxet)

• Persian: دست‌خط (fa) (dast-xat)
• Russian: почерк (ru) (póčerk) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рукопис (sh) m

  Roman: rukopis (sh) m

• Tagalog: sulat (tl)
• Zulu: isandla (zu) 7/8

text written by hand

• Finnish: käsin kirjoitettu teksti (fi)
• Greek: γραπτό (el) (graptó) n, γραφή (el) (grafí) f

• Russian: рукопись (ru) (rúkopis’) f
• Zulu: isandla (zu) 7/8

See also

• cursive

Verb

handwriting

1. Present participle of handwrite.