Character

Character(s) may refer to:

Art and entertainment

• Character (arts), an agent within a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
• Character sketch or character, a literary description of a character type
• Characters (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus
• Character (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
  • Character (film), a 1997 Dutch film based on that novel
• Character (Dark Tranquillity album)
• Character (Julia Kent album), 2013
• Game character (disambiguation), various types of character in a video game or role playing game
  • Player character, as above but who is controlled or whose actions are directly chosen by a player
  • Non-player character, as above but not player-controlled, frequently acronymed as NPC
• Characters (Stevie Wonder album), 1987
• Characters (John Abercrombie album), 1977
• The Characters, an improvised sketch comedy show on Netflix

Morality

• Moral character, an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities
• Character education, a US term for values education

Psychology

• Character structure, a person's traits

Science

• Character (biology), the abstraction of an observable physical or biochemical trait of an organism
• Character (mathematics), a homomorphism from a group to a field

Symbols

• Character (symbol), a sign or symbol
  • Character (computing), a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme
  • Chinese character, a written language symbol (sinogram) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages

Other uses

• Character (income tax), a type of income for tax purposes in the US
• Sacramental character, a Catholic teaching
• Charaktery, a monthly magazine in Poland

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Character
• All pages with titles containing Character
• Virtual character (disambiguation)