Types of Graphemes
The principal types of graphemes are logograms, which represent words or morphemes (for example, Chinese characters, or the ampersand & representing the English word and; also Arabic numerals); syllabic characters, representing syllables (as in Japanese kana); and alphabetic letters, corresponding roughly to phonemes (see next section). Graphemes also include additional symbols used in writing, such as marks of punctuation.
For a full discussion of the different types, see Writing system: Functional classification of writing systems.
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