title: Character
text: # 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
  