Hypernyms for "grapheme"
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Hypernyms
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allograph
alphabetic character
ASCII character
asterisk
blank
capital
capital letter
check character
dagger
diesis
double dagger
double obelisk
ideogram
ideograph
inferior
letter
letter of the alphabet
ligature
lowercase
lower-case letter
majuscule
mathematical symbol
minuscule
obelisk
percent sign
percentage sign
phonetic symbol
pictograph
radical
rune
runic letter
small letter
space
star
stenograph
subscript
superior
superscript
type
uppercase
upper-case letter
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.