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Grapheme vs Semasiography - What's the difference?

grapheme | semasiography |

As nouns the difference between grapheme and semasiography

is that grapheme is while semasiography is any system of writing that uses graphemes which denote meaningful elements of speech.

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.

    • semasiography

    English

    Noun

    (semasiographies)
  • Any system of writing that uses graphemes which denote meaningful elements of speech