grapheme vs capital letter

capital letter vs grapheme

grapheme and capital letter both are nouns.

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

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

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

Difference between grapheme and capital letter

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