即俗写字<旧>a simplified handwritten form of Chinese characters different from the simplified characters in use today

• “手头字”中的不少字古代字书中就有。

  Many simplified handwritten forms of characters are found in ancient books of characters.

• 人们的日常书信已经广泛使用了简化字，当时叫手头字。

  Simplified characters were already widely used in daily correspondence, and they were called "handwriting characters" at the time.