grapheme vs minuscule

minuscule vs grapheme

grapheme and minuscule both are nouns.

grapheme is not an adjective while minuscule is an adjective.

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

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

grapheme: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
minuscule: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

Other hyponyms of grapheme include allograph, check character, superior, superscript, inferior, subscript, ASCII character, ligature, capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase, lower-case letter, lowercase, 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)	minuscule (noun)
a written symbol that is used to represent speech	a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
	the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

grapheme (adjective)	minuscule (adjective)
	of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
	lowercase
	extremely small

Difference between grapheme and minuscule

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.