grapheme

Summary

grapheme ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,842 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• grapheme is credited with the discovery of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay^[2].
• grapheme is a type of sign^[3].
• grapheme is a type of linguistic unit^[4].
• grapheme is a type of character^[5].
• grapheme is a type of emic unit^[6].
• grapheme is part of alphabet^[7].
• grapheme is part of string^[8].
• grapheme is part of character set^[9].
• grapheme's Commons category is recorded as Graphemes^[10].
• grapheme's time of discovery or invention is recorded as 1912^[11].
• grapheme's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Graphemes^[12].
• grapheme's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox grapheme^[13].
• grapheme's has characteristic is recorded as glyph^[14].
• grapheme's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Grapheme^[15].
• grapheme's different from is recorded as phoneme^[16].
• grapheme's different from is recorded as morpheme^[17].
• grapheme's different from is recorded as graphene^[18].
• grapheme's studied by is recorded as linguistics^[19].
• grapheme's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q31455071^[20].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include sign^[3], linguistic unit^[4], character^[5], and emic unit^[6].

Use and Application

Part of include alphabet^[7], a type of writing system^[21]; string^[8], an abstract data type^[22]; and character set^[9].

Why It Matters

grapheme ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,842 views/month).^[1] grapheme has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[23] grapheme is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[24]