grapheme

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme. Doublet of -gram. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæ.fiːm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæ.fim/ Hyphenation: gra‧pheme‧graph‧eme === Noun === grapheme (plural graphemes) A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean hangul. Hyponym: digraph (Unicode) A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system. Synonym: (formally) grapheme cluster Coordinate terms: glyph, character (linguistics) In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === grapheme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia