Character
# Character

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), 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
