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

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

Character (biology), the abstraction of an observable physical or biochemical trait of an organism
Character (mathematics), a homomorphism from a group to a field
- Multiplicative character, a homomorphism from a group to the multiplicative subgroup of a field
- Character theory, the mathematical theory of spacial kind of characters associated to group representations
- Dirichlet character, a type of character in number theory

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