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grapheme

Translation
grapheme
graphemically, adv.
/graf"eem/, n. Ling.
1. a minimal unit of a writing system.
2. a unit of a writing system consisting of all the written symbols or sequences of written symbols that are used to represent a single phoneme.
[1935-40; GRAPH- + -EME]

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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