see this page. In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest functional unit of a writing system. The word grapheme is derived from Ancient Greek gráphō...
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symbols, called graphemes, relate to units of language. Phonetic writing systems – which include alphabets and syllabaries – use graphemes that correspond...
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Glyph (section Glyphs, graphemes and characters)
element of written language. A grapheme, or part of a grapheme (such as a diacritic), or sometimes several graphemes in combination (a composed glyph)...
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Grapheme–color synesthesia or colored grapheme synesthesia is a form of synesthesia in which an individual's perception of numerals and letters is associated...
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allograph is used of a glyph that is a design variant of a letter or other grapheme, such as a letter, a number, an ideograph, a punctuation mark or other...
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Synesthesia (section Grapheme–color synesthesia)
synesthesia that they have. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme–color synesthesia or color–graphemic synesthesia, letters or numbers are...
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Universal Character Set characters (redirect from Grapheme cluster)
Most of those represent graphemes for processing as linear text. Some, however, either do not represent graphemes, or, as graphemes, require exceptional...
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Phonemic orthography (redirect from Phoneme-grapheme correspondence)
orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond consistently to the language's phonemes (the...
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Many (but not all) graphemes that are part of a writing system that encodes a full spoken language are included in the Unicode standard, which also includes...
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Han unification (section Graphemes versus glyphs)
considering them as allographs – different glyphs representing the same "grapheme" or orthographic unit – hence, "Han unification", with the resulting character...
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for Apple: the Role of Letter-Word Associations in the Development of Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia" (PDF). Multisensory Research. 30 (3–5): 409–446. doi:10...
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below in the International Phonetic Alphabet (upper grapheme in each box) and romanisation (lower grapheme). Bengali is known for its wide variety of diphthongs...
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The combining grapheme joiner (CGJ), U+034F ͏ COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER is a Unicode character that has no visible glyph and is "default ignorable" by...
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script and was developed in the 15th or 16th century. It consisted of 28 graphemes, including several additions to represent Belarusian phonemes not found...
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here, see this page. The tilde (/ˈtɪldə/, also /ˈtɪld, -di, -deɪ/) is a grapheme ⟨˜⟩ or ⟨~⟩ with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English...
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character by stacking the modifier grapheme above the head grapheme, or by nesting the modifier grapheme inside the head grapheme if there is space. The symbol...
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common combining characters. It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner", which prevents canonical reordering of combining characters, and...
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In internationalization, CJK characters is a collective term for graphemes used in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, which each include...
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If a diacritic needs to be placed on or under a tie bar, the combining grapheme joiner (U+034F) needs to be used, as in [b͜͏̰də̀bdʊ̀] 'chewed' (Margi)...
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Kanji radicals are graphemes, or graphical parts, that are used in organizing Japanese kanji in dictionaries. They are derived from the 214 Chinese Kangxi...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A character is a semiotic sign, symbol, grapheme, or glyph – typically a letter, a numerical digit, an ideogram, a hieroglyph...
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Ancient Romans. Several Latin-script alphabets exist, which differ in graphemes, collation and phonetic values from the classical Latin alphabet. The...
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script. It is written from left to right. It is an abugida, i.e. its vowel graphemes are mainly realised not as independent letters, but as diacritics modifying...
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world, however the graphemes representing the decimal digits differ widely. Therefore Unicode includes 22 different sets of graphemes for the decimal digits...
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and [ ] are used here, see this page. In a writing system, a letter is a grapheme that generally corresponds to a phoneme—the smallest functional unit of...
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of one or more graphemes. At least one of these indicates the place and manner of articulation. If more than one such consonant grapheme is superimposed...
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which graphemes are ideograms representing concepts or ideas rather than a specific word in a language) and pictographic scripts (in which the graphemes are...
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At sign (category Graphemes)
The at sign (@) is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14), now seen more widely in email...
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Portuguese; /k/ in Italian and French. In English, ⟨h⟩ occurs as a single-letter grapheme (being either silent or representing the voiceless glottal fricative /h/...
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considered to represent the same grapheme if the differences between them are not significant for meaning. Thus, a grapheme can be regarded as an abstraction...
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