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Grapheme Moderate

Grapheme has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a written symbol that is used to represent speech

"the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"

2

A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.

See Also
listeme word allograph graphemics archigrapheme graphemically graph jamo
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
written symbol
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
allograph check character superscript subscript ASCII character ligature capital small letter type percent sign asterisk dagger double dagger letter space phonetic symbol mathematical symbol rune pictograph ideogram radical stenograph
Rhyming Words
eme reme heme feme seme teme xeme leme deme beme meme creme queme rheme fleme breme mneme kreme theme exeme
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