handwriting

English

A handwritten list of Anglican bishops of England, probably copied from a 17th-century book called Angliæ Notitia, or The Present State of England

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／手写 (zh) (shǒuxiě), 手写 (zh) (shǒuxiě)

• Dutch: handschrift (nl) n
• Finnish: käsinkirjoitus
• French: écriture de main
• German: Handschrift (de) f
• Greek: γραφή (el) f (grafí)
• Hungarian: kézírás (hu)
• Indonesian: bekas tangan (id)
• Irish: lámhscríbhneoireacht f, scríbhneoireacht f, scríobh m
• Italian: scrittura (it) f, grafia (it) f
• Japanese: 手書き (てがき, tegaki)
• Korean: 육필 (yukpil)
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• Latvian: rokraksts m
• Lithuanian: rašysena f
• Malay: penulisan tangan
• Norman: êcrituthe f
• Persian: دست‌نویسی (dast-nevisi)
• Portuguese: manuscritura f
• Romanian: scriere de mână, scris de mână
• Russian: собственнору́чная за́пись f (sobstvennorúčnaja zápisʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: rȕkopīs (sh) m
• Spanish: escritura manuscrita f
• Swedish: handskrift (sv) c
• Tagalog: sulat (tl)

characteristic writing of a particular person

• Arabic: خَطّ يَد m (ḵaṭṭ yad), خَطّ m (ḵaṭṭ)
• Armenian: ձեռագիր (hy) (jeṙagir)
• Bulgarian: почерк m (počerk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 筆跡／笔迹 (zh) (bǐjì), 笔迹 (zh) (bǐjì)

• Danish: håndskrift c
• Dutch: handschrift (nl) n
• Finnish: käsiala (fi)
• Georgian: ხელწერა (xelc̣era)
• German: Handschrift (de) f
• Greek: γραφή (el) f (grafí), γράψιμο (el) n (grápsimo), γραφικός χαρακτήρας (el) m (grafikós charaktíras)
• Hebrew: כְּתָב יָד (he) m (ktav yad)
• Hungarian: kézírás (hu)
• Icelandic: rithönd f
• Italian: calligrafia (it) f
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• Japanese: 筆跡 (ひっせき, hisseki)
• Korean: 필적 (ko) (piljeok)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Persian: دست‌خط (dast-xat)
• Portuguese: caligrafia (pt) f, letra (pt) f
• Russian: по́черк (ru) m (póčerk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рукопис m

  Roman: rukopis (sh) m

• Spanish: letra (es) f
• Swedish: handstil (sv) c
• Tagalog: sulat (tl)
• Volapük: penät (vo)
• Zulu: isandla (zu) class 7/8

text written by hand

• Armenian: ձեռագիր (hy) (jeṙagir)
• Bulgarian: ръкопис m (rǎkopis)
• Finnish: käsin kirjoitettu teksti
• Georgian: ხელნაწერი (xelnac̣eri)
• Greek: γραπτό (el) n (graptó), γραφή (el) f (grafí)
• Hungarian: kézzel írott szöveg, kézírásos szöveg, kézirat (hu)
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• Latvian: rokraksts m
• Portuguese: manuscrito (pt) m
• Russian: ру́копись (ru) f (rúkopisʹ)
• Swedish: handskrift (sv) c
• Zulu: isandla (zu) class 7/8

See also

• cursive

Verb

handwriting

1. present participle of handwrite