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See also: grapheme and graphème

Grapheme

See also: Grapheme and graphème

grapheme ‎(plural graphemes)

A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
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")

fundamental unit of a writing system