grapheme
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme. Doublet of -gram.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæ.fiːm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæ.fim/
- Hyphenation: gra‧pheme‧graph‧eme
Noun
editExamples (graphemes of the phoneme /f/) |
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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
- 2003, Richard Gillam, chapter 4, in Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 118:
- Even so, it's important for Unicode-friendly applications to deal with text in their user interfaces as a series of graphemes and not as a series of Unicode code points […]
- (linguistics) In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
- [1987, David Caplan, Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 234:
- The term for a letter or combination of letters which represents a particular sound is a “grapheme”. Languages like Italian and Serbo-Croatian have very simple “grapheme–phoneme conversion” rules.]
Derived terms
editTranslations
editfundamental unit of a writing system
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