字体
zì tǐ · HSK 7
typeface
🔤 字体 = character + body/form: the bodily form characters take = typeface
字 zì is a written character; 体 tǐ is body or form. The body a character wears is its font or calligraphic style. Compare 字 in 汉字 and 体 in 身体 (body).
字 — roof 宀 + child 子
Originally depicted a child 子 under a roof 宀, suggesting birth or rearing a child in the home. The meaning later extended to 'to give birth, nurture' and then to 'written character', since characters were seen as offspring derived from earlier pictographs.