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Grapheme
//ˈɡɹæ.fiːm// noun
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Noun
- 1 A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean hangul.
"For instance, it is convenient to refer to a single Chinese character as being a grapheme in some contexts."
- 2 a written symbol that is used to represent speech wordnet
- 3 A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system.
"Even so, it's important for Unicode-friendly applications to deal with text in their user interfaces as a series of graphemes and not as a series of Unicode code points […]"
- 4 In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
"The term for a letter or combination of letters which represents a particular sound is a “grapheme”. Languages like Italian and Serbo-Croatian have very simple “grapheme–phoneme conversion” rules."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme. Doublet of -gram.
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