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- Dictionarygrapheme/ˈɡrafiːm/
noun
- 1. the smallest meaningful contrastive unit in a writing system.
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Smallest semantically distinguishing unit in a written language
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. The word grapheme is derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) 'write' and the suffix -eme by analogy with phoneme and other names of emic units. The study of graphemes is called graphemics. The concept of graphemes is abstract and similar to the notion in computing of a character. By comparison, a specific shape that ... Wikipedia