Character

Character or Characters may refer to:

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), 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

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