handwriting

hand·writ·ing /ˈhændˌraɪtɪŋ/ noun [uncountableU]

WRITEthe style of someone’s writing 笔迹，字迹

I recognised her handwriting on the envelope.

我认出了信封上她的笔迹。

My handwriting has never been very neat.

我的字从来都写得不够工整。

n COLLOCATIONS

adjectives

neat/clear

Your handwriting is much neater than mine.

legible/illegible (=written clearly/not written clearly enough for you to read)

He writes very quickly and his handwriting is almost illegible.

small/tiny

Her handwriting was so tiny I couldn’t read it without my glasses.

bad/poor/terrible/awful

Why do doctors have such terrible handwriting?

good/lovely/beautiful

He wrote, in his lovely handwriting, a letter asking Ramsey to visit him.

somebody’s best handwriting

In his best handwriting, he wrote, 'Happy Father’s Day, Dad'.

verbs

have neat/small etc handwriting

Yu Yin has tiny handwriting.

recognize somebody’s handwriting

Marcus didn’t recognize the handwriting on the envelope.

read somebody’s handwriting

I’m afraid I find it very difficult to read your handwriting.

handwriting + NOUN

a handwriting expert (=someone who studies people's handwriting )

A handwriting expert has confirmed that the letter was almost certainly written by Bateman.

phrases

in somebody’s own handwriting

Entry forms must be in the candidate’s own handwriting.

Examples from the Corpus

handwriting• Text recognition has the same remaining problem as handwriting recognition.• Aunt Margaret's curly, black handwriting skipped and hopped on the paper because Melanie's eyes were so tired.• They learn for a day the art of copperplate handwriting on slates.• Likewise, in cursive handwriting it is often difficult to determine where one letter stops and another starts.• This described a form of handwriting used for everyday purposes.• Although recognition of handwriting has received much less attention the task is simpler and promising results have been obtained.• Effective and reliable handwriting recognition will necessarily form an important part of this new technology.• It was in the handwriting of my old friend Henry Jekyll.

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