GRAPHEME

Grapheme

A grapheme is the smallest semantically distinguishing unit in a written language, analogous to the phonemes of spoken languages. A grapheme may or may not carry meaning by itself, and may or may not correspond to a single phoneme. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, typographic ligatures, Chinese characters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and other individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.

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grapheme

Noun

  1. A fundamental unit of a writing system corresponding to letters in the English alphabet.
  2. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.


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