Grapheme Definition
grăfēm
graphemes
noun
graphemes
A letter of an alphabet.
American Heritage
A class consisting of all the allographs representing a given unit of a writing system, or all those representing a given phoneme.
Webster's New World
All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme /f/.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- graphic symbol
- character
Other Word Forms of Grapheme
Noun
Singular:
grapheme
Plural:
graphemesOrigin of Grapheme
From Ancient Greek γράφω (graphō, “write”) + -eme.
From Wiktionary
graph –eme
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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