| English noun: grapheme | 
| 1. | grapheme (communication) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | 
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 | Samples | The Greek alphabet has 24 characters. 
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 | Synonyms | character, graphic symbol | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | printed symbol, written symbol | 
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 | Narrower (hyponym) | allograph, alphabetic character, ASCII character, asterisk, blank, capital, capital letter, check character, dagger, diesis, double dagger, double obelisk, ideogram, ideograph, inferior, letter, letter of the alphabet, ligature, lower-case letter, lowercase, majuscule, mathematical symbol, minuscule, obelisk, percent sign, percentage sign, phonetic symbol, pictograph, radical, rune, runic letter, small letter, space, star, stenograph, subscript, superior, superscript, type, upper-case letter, uppercase | 
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