graphemics

English

Etymology

By analogy with phonemics. By surface analysis, graphemic +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɹæˈfiː.mɪks/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɹæˈfi.mɪks/
• Hyphenation: gra‧phe‧mics, graph‧em‧ics

Noun

graphemics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The study of the graphemes, or writing units, of a script, and of their relation to the phonemes of the spoken language.

Hypernyms

• grammatology
• graphology

Coordinate terms

• graphetics

Translations

study of graphemes

• Finnish: grafemiikka
• Russian: графе́мика (ru) f (grafémika)