letter or written symbol used to represent a phoneme
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Grapheme Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
grapheme
n : a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the greek alphabet has 24 characters" [syn: character, graphic symbol ]
Noun
1. a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
(synonym) character, graphic symbol
(hypernym) written symbol, printed symbol
(hyponym) allograph
Grapheme Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
A grapheme is the smallest semantically distinguishing unit in a written language, analogous to the phonemes of spoken languages. A grapheme may or may not carry meaning by itself, and may or may not correspond to a single phoneme. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, typographic ligatures, Chinese characters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and other individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.
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