For instance, it is convenient to refer to a single Chinese character as being a grapheme in some contexts.
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Grapheme
//ˈɡɹæ.fiːm//
Synonyms for "grapheme" (12 found)
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5 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 36 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- գրույթ noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Asturian
1 entries- grafema noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Balinese
1 entries- aksarabaga noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Belarusian
1 entries- графе́ма noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Bulgarian
1 entries- графе́ма noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Catalan
1 entries- grafema noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 字位 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
- 字素 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Czech
1 entries- grafém noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Dutch
1 entries- grafeem noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Esperanto
1 entries- grafemo noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Finnish
1 entries- grafeemi noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
French
1 entries- graphème noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Galician
1 entries- grafema noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Georgian
1 entries- გრაფემა noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
German
1 entries- Graphem noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Greek
1 entries- γράφημα noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Hebrew
1 entries- גְּרָפֶמָה noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Hungarian
1 entries- graféma noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Italian
1 entries- grafema noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Japanese
4 entries- 図形素 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
- 字素 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
- 文字素 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
- 書記素 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Kazakh
1 entries- графема noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Korean
3 entries- 문자소 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
- 서기소 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
- 자소 noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Macedonian
1 entries- графема noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Malay
1 entries- grafem noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Polish
1 entries- grafem noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Portuguese
1 entries- grafema noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Romanian
1 entries- grafem noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Russian
1 entries- графе́ма noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gràfēm noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
- гра̀фе̄м noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Sicilian
1 entries- grafima noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Slovak
1 entries- graféma noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Spanish
1 entries- grafema noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Swedish
1 entries- grafem noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Thai
1 entries- หน่วยอักขระ noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Ukrainian
1 entries- графе́ма noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tự vị noun (fundamental unit of a writing system)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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 […]
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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.
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In terms of specific graphemes, Table 2.5 identifies the most frequent inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme patterns.
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