grapheme vs capital

capital vs grapheme

grapheme and capital both are nouns.

grapheme is not an adjective while capital is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grapheme	Yes	No	No	No
capital	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, capital is a hyponym of grapheme; that is, capital is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than grapheme:

grapheme: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
capital: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

Other hyponyms of grapheme include allograph, check character, superior, superscript, inferior, subscript, ASCII character, ligature, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter, type, percent sign, percentage sign, asterisk, star, dagger, obelisk, diesis, double dagger, double obelisk, alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet, blank, space, phonetic symbol, mathematical symbol, rune, runic letter, pictograph, ideogram, ideograph, radical, stenograph, siglum.

grapheme (noun)	capital (noun)
a written symbol that is used to represent speech	the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
	one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
	a seat of government
	a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product
	wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value
	assets available for use in the production of further assets

grapheme (adjective)	capital (adjective)
	of principal importance
	first-rate
	uppercase

Difference between grapheme and capital

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