grapheme

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Synonyms: graphene, graphite, grahame, graphed, grapher, graphemes, graphemic, graeme

Antonyms: graphene, graphite, grahame, graphed, grapher, graphemes, graphemic, graeme

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Noun

1. A fundamental unit of a [[writing system]], corresponding to (for example) [[letters]] in the English [[alphabet]] or [[jamo]] in Korean [[hangul]].
2. {{lb|en|Unicode}} A sequence of one or more [[code point]]s that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a [[writing system]].
3. {{lb|en|linguistics}} In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of [[letters]] composing a [[phoneme]].

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