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

* ''Characters'' (John Abercrombie album), 1977 * ''Character'' (Dark Tranquillity album), 2005 * ''Character'' (Julia Kent album), 2013 * ''Character'' (Rachael Sage album), 2020 * ''Characters'' (Stevie Wonder album), 1987

Types of entity

Character (arts) In fiction, a character (or speaker, in poetry) is a person or other 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 ...

, 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) A game character is a person or any other entity acting in a game. Game character may also refer to: * Player character, a character or a role in tabletop and video games, who is controlled by a player, typically a protagonist of the game's plot ** ...

, 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 A non-player character (NPC), or non-playable character, is any character in a game that is not controlled by a player. The term originated in traditional tabletop role-playing games where it applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster ...

, 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

Sciences

* Character (biology), the abstraction of an observable physical or biochemical trait of an organism

Mathematics

* Character (mathematics), a homomorphism from a group to a field *

Characterization (mathematics) In mathematics, a characterization of an object is a set of conditions that, while different from the definition of the object, is logically equivalent to it. To say that "Property ''P'' characterizes object ''X''" is to say that not only does ''X ...

, 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 Moral character or character (derived from charaktêr) is an analysis of an individual's steady moral qualities. The concept of ''character'' can express a variety of attributes, including the presence or lack of virtues such as empathy, cour ...

, an evaluation of a particular individual's durable moral qualities

Symbols

* Character (symbol), a sign or symbol **

Character (computing) In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural langu ...

, a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme **

Chinese characters Chinese characters () are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as ''kanji ...

, 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 * Neighbourhood character, the look and feel of a built environment