Harfa
Harfa itace "grapheme" (baƙi na rubutu) dake a yanayin baƙi na rubutu. Yana daukan ma'ana na yanayin dake wakiltar ƙaramin bangare na sautin magana. Haruffa na daidai da phoneme acikin magana ta yare spoken form of the language.
 harafi | |
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| Bayanai | |
| Ƙaramin ɓangare na |
grapheme (en)  da alphanumeric character (en) |
| Bangare na |
digraph (en) , multigraph (en) da kalma |
| Amfani wajen |
alphabetic writing system (en) , syllabic writing system (en) , abjad (en) da abugida (en) |
Harfofin Greek na zamanin da a jikin vase
Siffar rubutunsa a wasu harsunan da ake rubutawa, ana kiransu da "syllabogram" (wanda ke nuna syllable) ko logogram(wanda shi kuma ke nuna kalma ko phrase).