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grapheme::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | character, graph, graphic symbol |
| Type of | printed symbol, written symbol |
| Has types | ascii character, asterisk, blank, capital, capital letter, check character, dagger, diesis, double dagger, double obelisk, ideogram, ideograph, inferior, letter, letter of the alphabet, ligature, lower-case letter, lowercase, majuscule, mathematical symbol, minuscule, obelisk, percent sign, percentage sign, phonetic symbol, pictograph, radical, rune, runic letter, small letter, space, star, stenograph, subscript, allograph, superscript, type, upper-case letter, uppercase, superior, alphabetic character |
Examples of grapheme
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A bar or stroke is a modification consisting of a line drawn through a grapheme.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Some letters are not part of any grapheme, but function as etymological markers.
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Certain types of grapheme-colour synaesthetes have more connectivity than others.
From the economist.com
There are many-to-one grapheme phoneme correspondences and tons of irregularities.
From the guardian.co.uk
The terms glyph, sign and character are sometimes used to refer to a grapheme.
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This is only possible, however, if you allow more than one grapheme for a phoneme.
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Dr Rouw and Dr Scholte chose grapheme-colour synaesthesia to study for two reasons.
From the economist.com
In the Sinhala script, the anusvara is not a diacritic but an independent grapheme.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Silica runs smoothly to about 15nm and grapheme can't compete at those sizes.
From the forbes.com
- Character: a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
- In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest unit of a writing system of any given language. An individual grapheme may or may not carry meaning by itself, and may or may not correspond to a single phoneme of the spoken language. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, typographic ligatures, Chinese characters, numerical digits, punctuation marks, and other individual symbols.
- A fundamental unit of a writing system corresponding to letters in the English alphabet; In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme
- A grapheme is a 'spelling unit'. For example, in Spanish the combination ll represents a different sound from a single l. Thus these are two graphemes. In English, graphemes may be quite complex. For example -tion behaves more-or-less as a single grapheme in words like function.
- A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme. In English, a grapheme may be one, two, three, or four letters, such as e, ei, igh, or eigh.
- Anything that functions as a distinct unit within an orthography. A grapheme may be a single character, a multigraph, or a diacritic, but in all cases graphemes are defined in relation to the particular orthography.
- Graphemes are the fundamental units in an orthography or writing system. The Spanish grapheme ch, for example, is treated as a single entity in sorting and often considered a separate letter. However, it is covered in Unicode by two characters, c + h, not a single ch character. (Anderson, 2003: 3)
- Smallest distinctive written unit in language system. McGowan argued that English has one grapheme <s> with a set of allographs, variations of the same abstract common graph, <SssSSs> and different script-S forms.
- Single sheet of trigonally bonded (sp 2 ) carbon atoms in a hexagonal Structure.
