Noun

Singular character

Plural characters

character (plural characters)

1. A being involved in the action of a story.
2. A written or printed symbol, or letter
3. A distinguishing feature; characteristic; A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
4. A moral strength.

   "You may not like to eat liver," said Calvin's father, "but it builds character."

5. A person with many notable or eccentric features.
6. (mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
7. (computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character. Synonymous with byte in some environments.

Character(s) may refer to:

• Character (arts), an agent in a work of art, including literature, drama, cinema, opera, etc.
• Character (biology), the abstraction of an observable physical or biochemical trait of an organism
• Character structure, a psychological system of personal traits
• Moral character, an evaluation of a particular individual's moral qualities
• Sacramental character, a Catholic teaching
• Player character, a fictional character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player

In symbols:

• Character (computing), a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme
• Character (symbol), a sign or symbol
• Chinese character, a written language symbol

In mathematics:

• Character (mathematics), a type of function used in algebra

In accounting:

• Character (income tax), a type of income for tax purposes in the USA

In entertainment:

• Character (1997 film)
• Character (album), by Dark Tranquillity
• Characters (album), by Stevie Wonder
• Character Options, a toy company
• The Characters, a book by the Greek philosopher Theophrastus

Moral character or character is an evaluation of a person's moral and mental qualities. Such an evaluation is subjective — one person may evaluate someone's character on the basis of their virtue, another may consider their fortitude, courage, loyalty, honesty, or piety.

Contents

• 1 Sourced
  • 1.1 Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
• 2 Unsourced
• 3 External links

Sourced

• Character is the inhabited habit.
  • Leonid S. Sukhorukov, All About Everything (2005).

• Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.
  • Winston Wolfe, Pulp Fiction (1994).

• Our characters are the result of our conduct.
  • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (c. 335 B.C.).

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).

• A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, 'and not on marble.
  • , p. 44.

• A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
  • John B. Gough, p. 46.

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