grapheme

graph·eme  (grfm)

n.

1. A letter of an alphabet.

2. All of the letters and letter combinations that represent a phoneme, as f, ph, and gh for the phoneme /f/.

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[graph + -eme.]

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gra·phemic (gr-fmk) adj.

gra·phemi·cal·ly adv.

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grapheme [ˈgræfiːm]

n

(Linguistics) Linguistics one of a set of orthographic symbols (letters or combinations of letters) in a given language that serve to distinguish one word from another and usually correspond to or represent phonemes, e.g. the f in fun, the ph in phantom, and the gh in laugh

[from Greek graphēma a letter]

graphemically  adv

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

grapheme - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" graphic symbol, character printed symbol, written symbol - a written or printed symbol allograph - a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme check character - a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission superscript, superior - a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character subscript, inferior - a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character ASCII character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers ligature - character consisting of two or more letters combined into one capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, capital - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case type - printed characters; "small type is hard to read" percent sign, percentage sign - a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100 asterisk, star - a star-shaped character * used in printing dagger, obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote diesis, double dagger, double obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" blank, space - a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" phonetic symbol - a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound mathematical symbol - a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation rune, runic letter - any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance" pictograph - a graphic character used in picture writing ideogram, ideograph - a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms" radical - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram stenograph - a shorthand character

Translations

grapheme [ˈgræfiːm] N → grafema m

grapheme

n → Graphem nt