grapheme

graph·eme

G0233300 (grăf′ēm′)n.1. A letter of an alphabet.2. All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme /f/.

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[graph + -eme.]

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gra·phe′mic (gră-fē′mĭk) adj.gra·phe′mi·cal·ly adv.

grapheme

(ˈɡræfiːm) n (Linguistics) linguistics one of a set of orthographic symbols (letters or combinations of letters) in a given language that serve to distinguish one word from another and usually correspond to or represent phonemes, e.g. the f in fun, the ph in phantom, and the gh in laugh[C20: from Greek graphēma a letter] graˈphemic adj graˈphemically adv

graph•eme

(ˈgræf im)

n. 1. a minimal unit of a writing system. 2. a unit of a writing system consisting of all the written symbols or sequences of written symbols that are used to represent a single phoneme. [1935–40; < Greek gráph(ein) to write + -eme] gra•phe′mic, adj. gra•phe′mi•cal•ly, adv.

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Noun

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grapheme - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"graphic symbol, characterprinted symbol, written symbol - a written or printed symbolallograph - a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that graphemecheck character - a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmissionsuperscript, superior - a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another charactersubscript, inferior - a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another characterASCII character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbersligature - character consisting of two or more letters combined into onecapital letter, majuscule, uppercase, upper-case letter, capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"lowercase, lower-case letter, minuscule, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type casetype - printed characters; "small type is hard to read"percent sign, percentage sign - a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100asterisk, star - a star-shaped character * used in printingdagger, obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnotediesis, double dagger, double obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnotealphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"blank, space - a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"phonetic symbol - a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech soundmathematical symbol - a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operationrune, runic letter - any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance"pictograph - a graphic character used in picture writingideogram, ideograph - a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms"radical - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogramstenograph - a shorthand character

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графема