Editing Grapheme (section)

==Types of grapheme==
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The principal types of graphemes are [[logogram]]s (more accurately termed morphograms<ref>Joyce, T. (2011), The significance of the morphographic principle for the classification of writing systems, ''Written Language and Literacy'' 14:1, pp. 58–81. {{doi|10.1075/wll.14.1.04joy}}</ref>), which represent words or [[morpheme]]s (for example [[Chinese characters]], the [[ampersand]] "&" representing the word ''and'', [[Arabic numerals]]); [[syllabary|syllabic]] characters, representing [[syllable]]s (as in Japanese [[kana]]); and [[alphabet]]ic letters, corresponding roughly to [[phoneme]]s (see next section). For a full discussion of the different types, see {{section link|Writing system|Functional classification}}.

There are additional graphemic components used in writing, such as [[punctuation mark]]s, [[mathematical symbol]]s, [[word divider]]s such as the space, and other [[:Category:Typographical symbols|typographic symbols]]. Ancient [[logogram|logographic scripts]] often used silent [[determinative]]s to disambiguate the meaning of a neighboring (non-silent) word.