grapheme

n.

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(Linguistics) a written symbol that is used to represent speech.

Noun

1.

grapheme - a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters" Synonyms: graphic symbol, character

allograph, alphabetic character, ASCII character, asterisk, blank, capital, capital letter, character, check character, dagger, dieses, double dagger, double obelisk, graphic symbol, ideogram, ideograph, inferior, letter, letter of the alphabet, ligature, lower case, lower-case letter, majuscule, mathematical symbol, minuscule, obelisk, percent sign, percentage sign, phonetic symbol, pictograph, printed symbol, radical, rune, runic letter, small letter, space, star, stenograph, subscript, superior, superscript, type, upper case, upper-case letter, written symbol