Character or Characters may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

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

Music

  • Character (Dark Tranquillity album), 2005
  • Character (Julia Kent album), 2013
  • Character, an album by Rachael Sage, 2020
  • Characters (John Abercrombie album), 1977
  • Characters (Stevie Wonder album), 1987
  • "Character", a song by Ryokuoushoku Shakai, 2022

Types of entity

  • Character (arts), an agent within a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
  • Character actor, an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles
  • 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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Character (film), a 1997 Dutch film based on Bordewijk's novel
  • Charaktery, a monthly magazine in Poland
  • Netflix Presents: The Characters, an improvised sketch comedy show on Netflix

Mathematics

  • Character (mathematics), a homomorphism from a group to a field
  • Characterization (mathematics), the logical equivalency between objects of two different domains.
  • 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

Morality and social science

  • 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

Symbols

  • Character (symbol), a sign or symbol
  • Character (computing), a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme

Other uses

  • Character (biology), the abstraction of an observable physical or biochemical trait of an organism
  • Character (income tax), a type of income for tax purposes in the US
  • Sacramental character, a Catholic teaching
  • Neighbourhood character, the look and feel of a built environment

See also

  • (character) (disambiguation)
  • Virtual character (disambiguation)