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Character (word) (from the Greek χαρακτήρ "engraved or stamped mark (on coins or seals), branding mark, symbol") may refer to:

In the arts: In communication, computing and technology: In religion and philosophy:
  • Moral character
  • Sacramental character, a supernatural mark made on a person's soul by any of three sacraments of the seven, according to Roman Catholic dogma
  • The Characters, a book by Theophrastus
In science: In income tax: In toys: In games:

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A character (from the Greek "engraved or stamped mark (on coins or seals), branding mark, symbol") may refer to any sign or symbol.

Etymology

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persona, in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word derives from the Latin for "mask" or "character", derived from the Etruscan word "phersu", with the same meaning.
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actor, actress, or player (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity.
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A nonfictional character (sometimes called a historical character
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fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a work of fiction. The process of creating and developing characters in a work of fiction is called characterization.
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A protagonist is a term used to refer to a figure or figures in literature whose intentions are the primary focus of a story.
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villain is an "evil" character in a story, whether an historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain is the bad guy, the characters who fight against the hero. A female villain is sometimes called a villainess.
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trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, human, or anthropomorphic animal who plays pranks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and norms of behaviour.

While the trickster crosses various cultural traditions, there are significant differences between tricksters in the traditions
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A nonfictional character (sometimes called a historical character
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Character is the seventh studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band, Dark Tranquillity.
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'Characters'

Studio album by Stevie Wonder
Released November 6 1987
Genre Soul
Label Tamla/Motown Records
Producer Stevie Wonder
Professional reviews
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Character (Dutch: Karakter) is a 1997 Dutch film, based on the best-selling novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk and directed by Mike van Diem.
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For other uses, see Sign.


In semiotics, a sign is "something that stands for something else, to someone in some capacity"[1]. It may be understood as a discrete unit of meaning, and includes words, images, gestures, scents, tastes,
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grapheme is the fundamental unit in written language. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, Chinese characters, numerals, punctuation marks, and all the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.

In a phonemic orthography, a grapheme corresponds to one phoneme.
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Symbols are objects, characters, or other concrete representations of ideas, concepts, or other abstractions. For example, in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, a red octagon is a symbol for the traffic sign meaning "STOP".
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glyph is the shape given in a particular typeface to a specific grapheme or symbol.

The term for the abstract entity represented by a glyph is character: a typographical character may be a grapheme (an element of a writing system), but also a numeral, a punctuation
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character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

An example of a character is a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark.
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A Chinese character or Han character (Simplified Chinese:
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Moral character or character is an evaluation of an individual's moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, or loyalty or of good behaviors or
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According to Roman Catholic Church teaching, a sacramental character is an indelible spiritual mark (the meaning of the word character in Latin) imprinted by three of the seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders.
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A character structure is a system of relatively permanent motivational and other traits that are manifested in the characteristic ways that an individual relates to others and reacts to various kinds of challenges.
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There are several meanings of the word character in mathematics, although all are related to the idea of using fields (most of the time the complex numbers), to study a more abstract algebraic structure.
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character is an attribute of an organism that allows it to be compared with another. In genetics this refers to heritable features which can exist in more than one state.[1] A trait
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For purposes of calculating a taxpayer's tax liability, character is the type of income. In the U.S. the Supreme Court decided in Commissioner_v._Glenshaw_Glass_Co. that income is an accession to wealth, however capital gain is of different character from ordinary income.
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Character Options is a popular toy company, notable for having both the Disney and Doctor Who toy licenses.

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In 2005 Character Options was granted the master toy licence to produce merchandise related to the revived series, Doctor Who.
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fictional character is any person, persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a work of fiction. The process of creating and developing characters in a work of fiction is called characterization.
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A player character or playable character (PC) is a fictional character in a game who is controlled or controllable by a player, typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. Player characters are often also metonymically called players.
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A non-player character (sometimes "non-playable character" or "non-player class"), often shortened to NPC, is a character in a role-playing game or computer game whose actions are not controlled by a human player.
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Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. Type glyphs (characters) are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques.
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