grapheme

See also: Grapheme and graphème

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme, doublet of gramme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹæf.iːm/

Noun

grapheme (plural graphemes)

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

Translations

fundamental unit of a writing system

• Armenian: գրույթ (hy) (gruytʻ)
• Balinese: ᬳᬓ᭄ᬲᬭᬩᬕ (aksarabaga)
• Catalan: grafema m
• Czech: grafém m
• Dutch: grafeem (nl) n
• Finnish: grafeemi (fi)
• French: graphème (fr) m
• Galician: grafema m
• German: Graphem (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: γράφημα (el) n (gráfima)
• Hungarian: graféma
• Italian: grafema (it) m
• Malay: grafem
• Polish: grafem (pl) m
• Portuguese: grafema m
• Russian: графе́ма (ru) f (graféma)
• Serbo-Croatian: grafem (sh) m
• Slovak: graféma
• Swedish: grafem (sv)
• Thai: หน่วยอักขระ (nùai-àk-kà-rà)