grapheme
noun/ˈɡɹæ.fiːm/UK/ˈɡɹæ.fim/US
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme. Doublet of -gram.
- borrowed from γράφω
Definitions
A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the…
A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean hangul.
- For instance, it is convenient to refer to a single Chinese character as being a grapheme in some contexts.
A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single…
A sequence of one or more code points that are processed and displayed as a single graphical unit of a writing system.
- 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 […]
In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for grapheme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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