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Usage

In discussions of orthography, vertical lines || are sometimes used to denote glyphs (also called graphs), contrasted with the angle brackets ⟨ ⟩ used for graphemes. This is analogous to the brackets [ ] and slashes / / used by linguists to denote phones and phonemes respectively.

Examples

• {{Graphetic unit|a}} → |a|

• {{gph|a}} → |a|

• {{grat|a}} → |a|

• {{gret|a}} → |a|

Counterexamples

• {{grapheme|a}} → ⟨a⟩

• {{gpm|a}} → ⟨a⟩

See also

{{grapheme}}