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What is a grapheme?

What is a grapheme? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
  2. In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.
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Such suggestions may not only undermine the autonomy of the word as grapheme, but also expand its limits of reference.
Compounds and derivatives tend to be spelled morphemically, the established grapheme bases are usually retained regardless of the phonemic alterations involved.
To develop the ability to translate a phoneme into its corresponding grapheme.
Some orthographies, such as Spanish, are relatively shallow, maintaining a one to one correspondence between grapheme and phoneme.
They believe that stressed vowels in open syllables remained phonetically short, and a consonant grapheme in intervocalic position usually represents a single consonant.
Lastly, for some languages, particularly those with complex and irregular grapheme codes, this method lacks the ability to easily overcome problems with spelling or written production.

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