grapheme

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæ.fiːm/
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• General-American: /ˈɡɹæ.fim/
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From Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “write”) + -eme. Doublet of -gram.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: գրույթ (gruytʻ) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Asturian: grafema — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Balinese: aksarabaga — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Belarusian: графе́ма (hrafjéma) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Bulgarian: графе́ма (graféma) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Catalan: grafema — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Chinese Mandarin: 字素 (zìsù) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Chinese Mandarin: 字位 (zìwèi) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Czech: grafém — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Dutch: grafeem — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Esperanto: grafemo — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Finnish: grafeemi — fundamental unit of a writing system
• French: graphème — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Galician: grafema — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Georgian: გრაფემა (grapema) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• German: Graphem — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Greek: γράφημα (gráfima) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Hebrew: גְּרָפֶמָה — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Hungarian: graféma — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Italian: grafema — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Japanese: 書記素 (shokiso) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Japanese: 字素 (jiso) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Japanese: 文字素 (mojiso) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Japanese: 図形素 (zukeiso) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Kazakh: графема (grafema) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Korean: 자소 (jaso) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Korean: 문자소 (munjaso) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Korean: 서기소 (seogiso) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Macedonian: графема (grafema) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Malay: grafem — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Māori: orotuhi — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Polish: grafem — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Portuguese: grafema — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Romanian: grafem — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Russian: графе́ма (graféma) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Serbo-Croatian: гра̀фе̄м — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Serbo-Croatian: gràfēm — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Sicilian: grafima — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Slovak: graféma — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Spanish: grafema — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Swedish: grafem — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Thai: หน่วยอักขระ (nùai-àk-kà-rà) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Ukrainian: графе́ма (hraféma) — fundamental unit of a writing system
• Vietnamese: tự vị — fundamental unit of a writing system