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Pronunciation / Transliteration: ɡʁafɛm
"Le mot 'chou' contient deux graphèmes principaux."
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The smallest meaningful unit of a writing system, such as a letter, a part of a letter, or a combination of letters that represent a single phoneme.
"In the English word 'chat', the letters 'ch' function as a single grapheme representing the sound /tʃ/." - 2
A fundamental distinctive graphic unit in any given script or orthography.
"Comparative orthography studies how different languages map sounds to a specific set of graphemes."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Coined in linguistics by analogy with phoneme, combining the Greek graphē (writing, drawing), derived from graphein (to write), with the suffix -eme used in linguistics to denote a fundamental unit. It entered academic and linguistic nomenclature in the mid-20th century to describe the smallest functional unit of a writing system.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Grapheme" is said worldwide
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graphème
Transliteration: ɡʁafɛm
"Le mot 'chou' contient deux graphèmes principaux."
Graphem
Transliteration: ɡʁaˈfeːm
"Ein Graphem ist die kleinste schalldarstellende Einheit eines Schriftsystems."
grafema
Transliteration: ɡraˈfɛma
"Il grafema rappresenta l'unità minima del sistema di scrittura."
grafema
Transliteration: ɡɾaˈfema
"La letra 'ñ' es un grafema distintivo en el alfabeto español."
grafema
Transliteration: ɡɾaˈfẽmɐ
"O grafema 'ch' corresponde a um único som em português."
ग्राफ़ीम
Transliteration: grafīm
Script: हिंदी देवनागरी
"ग्राफ़ीम किसी लेखन प्रणाली की सबसे छोटी कार्यात्मक इकाई है।"
字素
Transliteration: zì sù
Script: 中文汉字
"字素是书写系统中最小的意义单位。"
음소문자
Transliteration: eum-so-mun-ja
Script: 한국어 한글
"그라펨은 문자 체계에서 가장 작은 단위입니다."
書素
Transliteration: shoso
Script: 日本語
"書素は言語の表記における最小の単位です。"
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