Grapheme

Definitions

1. A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean hangul.
2. A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system.
3. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.

Equivalents

Examples

“For instance, it is convenient to refer⟳ to a single Chinese character as being a grapheme in some contexts.”

“Even so, it's important for Unicode-friendly applications to deal⟳ with text in their user interfaces as a series of graphemes and not as a series of Unicode code points […]”

“The term for a letter or combination of letters which represents a particular sound⟳ is a “grapheme”. Languages like⟳ Italian and Serbo-Croatian have⟳ very simple “grapheme–phoneme conversion” rules.”

“In terms of specific graphemes, Table 2.5 identifies the most frequent inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme patterns.”

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