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grapheme
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun grapheme has 1 sense
- grapheme(n = noun.communication) character, graphic symbol - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" is a kind of printed symbol, written symbol
has particulars: allograph, check character, superior, superscript, inferior, subscript, ascii character, ligature, capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter, type, percent sign, percentage sign, asterisk, star, dagger, obelisk, diesis, double dagger, double obelisk, alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet, blank, space, phonetic symbol, mathematical symbol, rune, runic letter, pictograph, ideogram, ideograph, radical, stenograph
OXFORD DICTIONARY
grapheme, n. Linguistics 1 a class of letters etc. representing a unit of sound.
2 a feature of a written expression that cannot be analysed into smaller meaningful units.
2 a feature of a written expression that cannot be analysed into smaller meaningful units.
Derivative
graphematic adj. graphemic adj. graphemically adv.
Etymology
GRAPH(2) + -EME
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