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Grapheme vs Unihan - What's the difference?

grapheme | unihan |

As a noun grapheme

is a fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.

As a proper noun Unihan is

a character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.

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.

    • unihan

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun) (wikipedia Unihan)
  • (computing, typography) A character set, a subset of Unicode, that attempts to unify the regional and historical variants of Han characters by treating them as different glyphs representing the same grapheme.