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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>, a <b>grapheme</b> is the smallest functional unit of a <a href="page.php?w=writing_system">writing system</a>. The word grapheme is derived from <a href="page.php?w=Ancient_Greek">Ancient Greek</a>'s  ('write'), and the suffix -eme (by analogy with <a href="page.php?w=phoneme">phoneme</a> and other <a href="page.php?w=emic_unit">emic unit</a>s). The study of graphemes is called <a href="page.php?w=graphemics">graphemics</a>. The concept of a grapheme is abstract; it is similar to the notion</p><p>
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