title: Character
text: 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
  
  See also 
   (character) (disambiguation)
   Virtual character (disambiguation)