Grapheme
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noun.
A letter of an alphabet.
noun.
All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as
f, ph,
and
gh
for the phoneme /f/.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
a written symbol that is used to represent speech.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A fundamental unit of a writing system corresponding to
letters
in the English
alphabet
.
noun.
In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of
letters
composing a
phoneme
.
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noun.
a written symbol that is used to represent speech
Word Usage
"And the discovery of grapheme is one of those stories that makes you feel like you and I could do physics ..."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
printed symbol
written symbol
Hyponym
Words that are more specific
allograph
alphabetic character
ascii character
asterisk
blank
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
character
graphic symbol