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Definition of Grapheme
1. Noun. A written symbol that is used to represent speech. "The Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
Generic synonyms: Printed Symbol, Written Symbol
Specialized synonyms: 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
Derivative terms: Character
Definition of Grapheme
1. Noun. A fundamental unit of a writing system corresponding to letters in the English alphabet. ¹
2. Noun. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grapheme
1. a unit of a writing system [n -S]
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Literary usage of Grapheme
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1. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"There is frequent use of the double grapheme FF- in the latter half of the
thirteenth century and during the fourteenth century in a number of documents ..."
2. Teaching Children to Be Literate: A Reflective Approach by Anthony V. Manzo, Ula Casale Manzo (1995)
"grapheme The written symbol used to represent a phoneme. It may be composed of
one or more letters, and the same grapheme may represent more than one ..."
3. Literary Disorders: Holistic Diagnosis and Remediation by Ula C. Manzo, Anthony V. Manzo (1993)
"... day, generalizations without strict phoneme- sweet, soap grapheme correspondence;
spelled by applying rules of sound-letter correspondence Irregular ..."
4. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1893)
"or uneven surfaces to be covered, either the fluid or the resistance is too great.
In this instrument such is not the case. Phonograph and Micro-grapheme. ..."
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