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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 gráphō ('write'), and the suffix -eme by analogy with phoneme and other 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 represents any... Wikipedia