noun
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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his grandmother taught him his letters
• Syn: ↑letter, ↑alphabetic character
• Hypernyms: ↑character, ↑grapheme, ↑graphic symbol
• Hyponyms:
↑ascender, ↑descender, ↑digraph, ↑digram, ↑initial, ↑A, ↑a, ↑B, ↑b, ↑C, ↑c, ↑D, ↑d, ↑E, ↑e, ↑F, ↑f, ↑G, ↑g, ↑H, ↑h, ↑I, ↑i, ↑J, ↑j, ↑K, ↑k, ↑L, ↑l, ↑M, ↑m, ↑N, ↑n, ↑O, ↑o, ↑P, ↑p, ↑Q, ↑q, ↑R, ↑r, ↑S, ↑s, ↑T, ↑t, ↑U, ↑u, ↑V, ↑v, ↑W, ↑w, ↑double-u, ↑X, ↑x, ↑ex, ↑Y, ↑y, ↑wye, ↑Z, ↑z, ↑zee, ↑zed, ↑ezed, ↑izzard, ↑alpha, ↑beta, ↑gamma, ↑delta, ↑epsilon, ↑zeta, ↑eta, ↑theta, ↑iota, ↑kappa, ↑lambda, ↑mu, ↑nu, ↑xi, ↑omicron, ↑pi, ↑rho, ↑sigma, ↑tau, ↑upsilon, ↑phi, ↑chi, ↑khi, ↑psi, ↑omega, ↑aleph, ↑beth, ↑gimel, ↑daleth, ↑he, ↑waw, ↑zayin, ↑heth, ↑teth, ↑yodh, ↑kaph, ↑lamedh, ↑mem, ↑nun, ↑samekh, ↑ayin, ↑pe, ↑sadhe, ↑qoph, ↑resh, ↑sin, ↑shin, ↑taw, ↑polyphone, ↑polyphonic letter, ↑block letter, ↑block capital, ↑vowel, ↑consonant
• Member Holonyms: ↑alphabet
• Part Holonyms: ↑spelling
Useful english dictionary. 2012.