"grapheme" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɡɹæ.fiːm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡɹæ.fim/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-grapheme.wav [Southern-England] Forms: graphemes [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme. Doublet of -gram. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|γράφω||write}} Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”), {{m|en|-eme}} -eme, {{doublet|en|-gram}} Doublet of -gram Head templates: {{en-noun}} grapheme (plural graphemes)
  1. A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul. Categories (topical): Writing Translations (fundamental unit of a writing system): գրույթ (gruytʿ) (Armenian), grafema [masculine] (Asturian), ᬳᬓ᭄ᬲᬭᬩᬕ (aksarabaga) (Balinese), графе́ма (hrafjéma) [feminine] (Belarusian), графе́ма (graféma) [feminine] (Bulgarian), grafema [masculine] (Catalan), 字素 (zìsù) (Chinese Mandarin), 字位 (zìwèi) (Chinese Mandarin), grafém [masculine] (Czech), grafeem [neuter] (Dutch), grafemo (Esperanto), grafeemi (Finnish), graphème [masculine] (French), grafema [masculine] (Galician), გრაფემა (grapema) (Georgian), Graphem [neuter] (German), γράφημα (gráfima) [neuter] (Greek), גְּרָפֶמָה [feminine] (Hebrew), graféma (Hungarian), grafema [masculine] (Italian), 書記素 (shokiso) (alt: しょきそ) (Japanese), 字素 (jiso) (alt: じそ) (Japanese), 文字素 (mojiso) (alt: もじそ) (Japanese), 図形素 (zukeiso) (alt: ずけいそ) (Japanese), графема (grafema) (Kazakh), 자소 (jaso) (Korean), 문자소 (munjaso) (Korean), 서기소 (seogiso) (Korean), графема (grafema) [feminine] (Macedonian), grafem (Malay), grafem [masculine] (Polish), grafema [masculine] (Portuguese), grafem [neuter] (Romanian), графе́ма (graféma) [feminine] (Russian), гра̀фе̄м [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gràfēm [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), grafima [masculine] (Sicilian), graféma [feminine] (Slovak), grafema [masculine] (Spanish), grafem (Swedish), หน่วยอักขระ (nùai-àk-kà-rà) (Thai), графе́ма (hraféma) [feminine] (Ukrainian), tự vị (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-grapheme-en-noun-OEab4RB0 Disambiguation of Writing: 41 28 31 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 40 15 Disambiguation of 'fundamental unit of a writing system': 55 29 15
  2. (Unicode) A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system. Synonyms: grapheme cluster
    Sense id: en-grapheme-en-noun-Yroa2uyr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 40 15
  3. (linguistics) In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme. Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-grapheme-en-noun-5H5-COCz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 40 15 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: grapheme-color

Inflected forms

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          "writing system",
          "writing system"
        ],
        [
          "letters",
          "letters"
        ],
        [
          "alphabet",
          "alphabet"
        ],
        [
          "jamo",
          "jamo"
        ],
        [
          "Hangeul",
          "Hangeul"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: glyph"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard Gillam, chapter 4, in Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard, Addison-Wesley Professional, page 118",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Unicode",
          "Unicode"
        ],
        [
          "code point",
          "code point"
        ],
        [
          "writing system",
          "writing system"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Unicode",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Unicode) A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "grapheme cluster"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[1987, David Caplan, Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, page 234",
          "text": "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.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Flavia Belpoliti, Encarna Bermejo, Spanish Heritage Learners' Emerging Literacy: Empirical Research and Classroom Practice, Routledge",
          "text": "In terms of specific graphemes, Table 2.5 identifies the most frequent inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme patterns.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ],
        [
          "letters",
          "letters"
        ],
        [
          "phoneme",
          "phoneme"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹæ.fiːm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹæ.fim/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-grapheme.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-grapheme.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-grapheme.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-grapheme.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "gruytʿ",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "գրույթ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafema"
    },
    {
      "code": "ban",
      "lang": "Balinese",
      "roman": "aksarabaga",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "ᬳᬓ᭄ᬲᬭᬩᬕ"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "hrafjéma",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "графе́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "graféma",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "графе́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafema"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zìsù",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "字素"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zìwèi",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "字位"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafém"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "grafeem"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "grafemo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "grafeemi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "graphème"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafema"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "grapema",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "გრაფემა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Graphem"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "gráfima",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "γράφημα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "גְּרָפֶמָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "graféma"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafema"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しょきそ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shokiso",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "書記素"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じそ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jiso",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "字素"
    },
    {
      "alt": "もじそ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mojiso",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "文字素"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ずけいそ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "zukeiso",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "図形素"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "grafema",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "графема"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jaso",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "자소"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "munjaso",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "문자소"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seogiso",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "서기소"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "grafema",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "графема"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "grafem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafem"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafema"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "grafem"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "graféma",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "графе́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гра̀фе̄м"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gràfēm"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafima"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "graféma"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "grafema"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "grafem"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "nùai-àk-kà-rà",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "หน่วยอักขระ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hraféma",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "графе́ма"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "fundamental unit of a writing system",
      "word": "tự vị"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grapheme"
}

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