Character
Wikimedia disambiguation page
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
Character (Dark Tranquillity album), 2005
Character (Julia Kent album), 2013
Character, an album by Rachael Sage, 2020
Characters (John Abercrombie album), 1977
Characters (Stevie Wonder album), 1987
"Character", a song by Ryokuoushoku Shakai, 2022
Types of entity
Character (arts), an agent within a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
Character actor, an actor known for playing unusual, eccentric or interesting characters in supporting roles
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.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105534017. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1936, 2005, 2013 and 2020.
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