grapheme

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

From Ancient Greek γράφω ("write") + -eme. -gram.

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