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) In fiction, a character is a person or being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game). The character may be entirely fictional or based on a real-life person, in which case the distincti ...

, 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 A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional Character (arts), character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters tha ...

, 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) In computing and telecommunications, a character is the internal representation of a character (symbol) used within a computer or system. Examples of characters include letters, numerical digits, punctuation marks (such as "." or "-"), and ...

, 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