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grapheme (n.)
[grapheme 词源字典]
1937, apparently coined by U.S. linguistics professor William Freeman Twaddell (1906-1982), from
graph
"letter, symbol" (see
-graphy
) +
-eme
"unit of language structure." Related:
Graphemic
.
[grapheme etymology, grapheme origin, 英语词源]