Character

Character(s) may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Character (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
Characters (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theophrastus

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
Game character (disambiguation), various types of characters 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 abbreviated as NPC

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

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

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

gollark: Actually, metainevitability just translates into normal inevitability, hm.

gollark: If it isn't inevitable now, at least, it will be inevitable eventually.

gollark: osmarks internet radio™ *is* inevitable.

gollark: In essence, none are safe.

gollark: And me and baidicoot were looking at getting a cheap VPS with 250Mbps, which would allow 3000 outgoing voice chats.