A Sememe is a proposed unit of transmitted or intended meaning; it is atomic or indivisible. A sememe can be the meaning expressed by a morpheme, such as the English pluralizing morpheme -s, which carries the sememic feature [+ plural]. Alternately, a single sememe (for example [go] or [move]) can be conceived as the abstract representation of such verbs as skate, roll, jump, slide, turn, or boogie.
Sememes are the basic semantic structural units of a language which combine to yield morphemes or words.
A sememe can, for example, be distinguished from a phoneme or a gesture which does not communicate a message in a social compact.
Sememes (or, dhatupada') are given a variety of phonemic and morphological forms in the lingua franca to constitute semantic expressions, or the vocabulary of an evolving and growing civilization'.
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