grapheme

Noun
  1. A written symbol that is used to represent speech (synset 106831828)
    "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
    is a type of: printed symbol, written symbol - a written or printed symbol
    subtypes:
    • allograph - a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme
    • check character - a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission
    • superior, superscript - a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
    • inferior, subscript - a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
    • ascii character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers
    • ligature - character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
    • capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase - one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
    • lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter - the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
    • type - printed characters
    • percent sign, percentage sign - a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100
    • asterisk, star - a star-shaped character * used in printing
    • dagger, obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
    • diesis, double dagger, double obelisk - a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
    • alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
    • blank, space - a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
    • phonetic symbol - a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound
    • mathematical symbol - a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation
    • rune, runic letter - any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages
    • pictograph - a graphic character used in picture writing
    • ideogram, ideograph - a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it
    • radical - a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
    • stenograph - a shorthand character
    same as: character, graph, graphic symbol

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