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Definitions of grapheme in various dictionaries:
noun - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
A letter of an alphabet.
All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme / f/.
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Minimal unit of a writing system |
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Sep 20 2009 Premier Sunday - King Feature Syndicate |
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the smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system. |
a written symbol that is used to represent speech |
the smallest unit in a system of writing a language that can express a difference in sound or meaning |
The smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system. |
A letter of an alphabet. |
All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme f. |
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In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest unit of a writing system of any given language. An individual grapheme may or may not carry meaning by itself, and may or may not correspond to a single phoneme of the spoken language. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, typographic ligatures, Chinese characters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and other individual symbols. A grapheme can also be construed as a graphical sign that independently represents a portion of linguistic material.The word grapheme, coined in analogy with phoneme, is derived from Ancient Greek (gráph), meaning 'write', and the suffix -eme, by analogy with phoneme and other names of emic units. The study of graphemes is called graphemics. * The concept of graphemes is an abstract one and similar to the notion in computing of a character. By comparison, a specific shape that represents any particular grapheme in a specific typeface is called a glyph. For example, the grapheme corresponding to the abstract concept o |