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• Personal character:
  • A person's moral predispositions or attitudes; see moral character, losers in literature.
  • In psychiatry, a character structure is a constellation of enduring motivational and other traits that are manifested in the characteristic ways that an individual reacts to various challenges. See character structure.

• A fictional person from a book, play, or other fictional work; see fictional character.
  • In roleplaying games, the role or persona assumed by the player within the fictional world of the game; also, the figurine or token that represents this character, used to map out movement relative to obstacles and other players' characters.
  • A video game character can be either a player character or a non-player character (NPC)
  • When someone takes on the role of a fictional character, or a role in a role-playing game, they are said to be in character; when they drop out of this role, they are said to break character

• Units of information:
  • A grapheme such as a letterThe term letter can refer to: Letter, a written message from one party to another. Letter, a character of an alphabet, abjad, or syllabary. Letter, a standard paper size used primarily in the United States. Letters can also mean literature, as in arts and, Chinese ideogramA Chinese character. The ideographic representation of a child beneath a roof which once had the meaning of "to care for", has since changed over the years to a deflective meaning of "character", "word" or more from the point of view of the ideograph as s, numeral; or punctuationPunctuation marks are written symbols that do not correspond to either phonemes (sounds) of a spoken language nor to lexemes (words and phrases) of a written language, but which serve to organize or clarify written language. See orthography. The rules of mark. More generally, the components of an alphabetAn alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters—basic written symbols—each of which roughly represents or represented historically a phoneme of a spoken language. This as distinguished from other writing systems such as ideograms, in which symbols r. See also typographyTypography is art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. These applications can be phyiscal or digital. The two primary functions of typo.
  • In computing, a unit of information in computer storage or communications; see character (computing)For alternate meanings, see character. In computer terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, or written symbol, of a natural language, such as a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark. The concept also include.

• A movie released in 1997; see Character (film)Character (Dutch title Karakter is a Dutch film, written and directed by Mike van Diem and released in 1997. External links 1997 films Drama films..

• In Catholicism, a sacramental character is a supernatural mark made on a person's soul by some sacraments.

• In mathematics, there are several meanings of the word character, all related to the idea of homomorphisms into the complex numbers. See character (mathematics).