morpheme
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/ˈmɔːrfiːm/
🇬🇧
/ˈmɔːfiːm/
The smallest part of a word that has meaning.
The word 'cat' is made up of one morpheme, while 'unhappiness' has three morphemes.
'猫'这个词由一个形态素组成,而'unhappiness'由三个形态素组成。