Meaning Of The Word Grapheme

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Grapheme Meaning

Grapheme Definition
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What's The Definition Of Grapheme?

grapheme in American English
a class consisting of all the allographs representing a given unit of a writing system, or all those representing a given phoneme
noun: a minimal unit of a writing system

grapheme in British English
noun: one of a set of orthographic symbols (letters or combinations of letters) in a given language that serve to distinguish one word from another and usually correspond to or represent phonemes, e. g. the f in fun, the ph in phantom, and the gh in laugh

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