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grapheme

noun
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As a noun, grapheme means a fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.

Meanings of grapheme

4 meanings

noun

  1. A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.

  2. unicodeA sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system.

  3. linguisticsIn alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.

  4. A written symbol that is used to represent speech

    “the Greek alphabet has 24 characters”

    Similar: character, graph, graphic symbol

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
charactergraphgraphic symbol

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