grapheme

See also: Grapheme and graphème

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme, doublet of gramme.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹæf.iːm/

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.
  2. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
Examples (graphemes of the phoneme /f/)

f (as in "fun")
gh (as in "rough")
ph (as in "philosopher")

Translations
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