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1. aminimalunitofawritingsystem.

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2. aunitofawritingsystemconsistingofallthewrittensymbolsorsequencesofwrittensymbolsthatareusedtorepresentasinglephoneme.

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Originofgrapheme
19351940

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graphemically,adverb

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grapheme
/rfim/
noun
1. (linguistics)oneofasetoforthographicsymbols(lettersorcombinationsofletters)inagivenlanguagethatservetodistinguishonewordfromanotherandusuallycorrespond
toorrepresentphonemes,e.g.thefinfun,thephinphantom,andtheghinlaugh

DerivedForms
graphemically,adverb

WordOrigin
C20:fromGreekgraphmaaletter

CollinsEnglishDictionaryComplete&Unabridged2012DigitalEdition
WilliamCollinsSons&Co.Ltd.1979,1986HarperCollins
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WordOriginandHistoryforgrapheme
n.

1937,AmericanEnglish,fromgraph(/browse/graph)"letter,symbol"(seegraphy(/browse/graphy))+eme(/browse/eme)"unitoflanguagestructure."
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