Associations to the word «Grapheme»

Wiktionary

GRAPHEME, noun. A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
GRAPHEME, noun. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.

Dictionary definition

GRAPHEME, noun. A written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters".

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle