grapheme

See also: Grapheme and graphème

English[edit]

From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme. Doublet of -gram.

Examples (graphemes of the phoneme /f/)
f (as in fun) gh (as in rough) ph (as in philosopher)

grapheme (plural graphemes)

A fundamental unit of a writing system, corresponding to (for example) letters in the English alphabet or jamo in Korean Hangeul.
In alphabetic writing, the shortest group of letters composing a phoneme.

fundamental unit of a writing system

Armenian: գրույթ (hy) (gruytʿ)
Asturian: grafema m
Balinese: ᬳᬓ᭄ᬲᬭᬩᬕ (aksarabaga)
Belarusian: графе́ма f (hrafjéma)
Bulgarian: графе́ма f (graféma)
Catalan: grafema m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 字素 (zh) (zìsù), 字位 (zìwèi)
Czech: grafém m
Dutch: grafeem (nl) n
Esperanto: grafemo
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: grafeemi (fi)
French: graphème (fr) m
Galician: grafema (gl) m
Georgian: გრაფემა (grapema)
German: Graphem (de) n
Greek: γράφημα (el) n (gráfima)
Hebrew: גְּרָפֶמָה‎ f
Hungarian: graféma
Italian: grafema (it) m
Japanese: 書記素 (しょきそ, shokiso), 字素 (じそ, jiso), 文字素 (もじそ, mojiso), 図形素 (ずけいそ, zukeiso)
Kazakh: графема (grafema)
Korean: 자소 (ko) (jaso), 문자소 (munjaso), 서기소 (seogiso)
Macedonian: графема f (grafema)
Malay: grafem
Polish: grafem (pl) m
Portuguese: grafema m
Romanian: grafem (ro) n
Russian: графе́ма (ru) f (graféma)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гра̀фе̄м m

Roman: gràfēm (sh) m
Sicilian: grafima m
Slovak: graféma f
Spanish: grafema (es) m
Swedish: grafem (sv)
Thai: หน่วยอักขระ (nùai-àk-kà-rà)
Ukrainian: графе́ма f (hraféma)
Urdu: ^{(please verify)} اکائی‎
Vietnamese: tự vị (vi)