grapheme
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grapheme
- /ˈɡɹæ.fiːm/ UK
- /ˈɡɹæ.fim/ US
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + English -eme. Doublet of -gram.
noun graphemes
- A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean hangul. For instance, it is convenient to refer to a single Chinese character as being a grapheme in some contexts.
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A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system.
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 […]
Similar: grapheme cluster
- In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme. 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.
Translations
Every language
noun fundamental unit of a writing system
| Español | grafema |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 자소 jaso, 문자소 munjaso, 서기소 seogiso |
| 日本語 | 書記素 shokiso, 字素 jiso, 文字素 mojiso, 図形素 zukeiso |
| 中文 | 字素 zìsù, 字位 zìwèi |
| Português | grafema |
| Français | graphème |
| Deutsch | Graphem |
| Italiano | grafema |
| Ελληνικά | γράφημα gráfima |
| Română | grafem |
| Русский | графе́ма graféma |
| Tiếng Việt | tự vị |
| עברית | גְּרָפֶמָה |
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title = {grapheme},
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