GRAPHEME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grapheme mean? 

• GRAPHEME (noun)
  The noun GRAPHEME has 1 sense:

1. a written symbol that is used to represent speech

  Familiarity information: GRAPHEME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAPHEME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written symbol that is used to represent speech

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

character; graph; grapheme; graphic symbol

Context example:

the Greek alphabet has 24 characters

Hypernyms ("grapheme" is a kind of...):

printed symbol; written symbol (a written or printed symbol)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grapheme"):

dagger; obelisk (a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote)

stenograph (a shorthand character)

radical (a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram)

ideogram; ideograph (a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it)

pictograph (a graphic character used in picture writing)

rune; runic letter (any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages)

mathematical symbol (a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation)

phonetic symbol (a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound)

blank; space (a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing)

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)

diesis; double dagger; double obelisk (a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote)

allograph (a variant form of a grapheme, as 'm' or 'M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme)

asterisk; star (a star-shaped character * used in printing)

percent sign; percentage sign (a sign ('%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100)

type (printed characters)

lower-case letter; lowercase; minuscule; small letter (the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case)

capital; capital letter; majuscule; upper-case letter; uppercase (one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis)

ligature (character consisting of two or more letters combined into one)

ASCII character (any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers)

inferior; subscript (a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character)

superior; superscript (a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character)

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)