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Grapheme vs Archigrapheme - What's the difference?

grapheme | archigrapheme |

As nouns the difference between grapheme and archigrapheme

is that grapheme is a fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul while archigrapheme is a grapheme which represents any of several graphemes (often causing ambiguity), by analogy with the archiphoneme, which represents several phonemes.

grapheme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • archigrapheme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a grapheme which represents any of several graphemes (often causing ambiguity), by analogy with the archiphoneme, which represents several phonemes.