Grapheme (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun Linguistics.
  1. a minimal unit of a writing system.
  2. a unit of a writing system consisting of all the written symbols or sequences of written symbols that are used to represent a single phoneme.
noun
  1. 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
Grapheme (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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