Grapheme
Translation- Grapheme
In
typography , a grapheme is the fundamental unit in written language. Graphemes include alphabetic letters,Chinese characters ,numeral s,punctuation marks, and all the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.In a
phonemic orthography , a grapheme corresponds to onephoneme . In spelling systems that are non-phonemicndash such as the spellings used most widely for written Englishndash multiple graphemes may represent a single phoneme. These are called digraphs (two graphemes for a single phoneme) and trigraphs (three graphemes). For example, the word "ship" contains four graphemes ("s", "h", "i", and "p") but only three phonemes, because "sh" is a digraph.Different
glyph s can represent the same grapheme, meaning they are allographs. For example, the minuscule letter "a " can be seen in two variants, with a hook at the top , and without <ɑ>. Not all glyphs are graphemes in the phonological sense; for example thelogogram ampersand ("&") represents the Latin word "et" (English ‘and’), which contains two phonemes.ee also
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Allography
*Digraph (orthography)
*Character (computing)
*Glyph
*Letter (alphabet)
*Sign (semiotics)
*Trigraph (orthography)
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