| has gloss | (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech; "the Greek alphabet has 24 characters"
character, graphic symbol, grapheme |
| has gloss | eng: A character is the name of a letter, number or any symbol that can fit in the same space the letters and numbers fit. |
| has gloss | eng: In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a 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. |
| lexicalization | eng: character |
| lexicalization | eng: grapheme |
| lexicalization | eng: graphic symbol |
| subclass of | (noun) a written or printed symbol
printed symbol, written symbol |
| has subclass | (noun) a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme
allograph |
| has subclass | (noun) a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission
check character |
| has subclass | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character
superscript, superior |
| has subclass | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
inferior, subscript |
| has subclass | (noun) any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers
ASCII character |
| has subclass | (noun) character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
ligature |
| has subclass | (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
uppercase, majuscule, upper-case letter, capital letter, capital |
| has subclass | (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
lower-case letter, small letter, lowercase, minuscule |
| has subclass | (noun) printed characters; "small type is hard to read"
type |
| has subclass | (noun) a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by 100
percentage sign, percent sign |
| has subclass | (noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing
asterisk, star |
| has subclass | (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
obelisk, dagger |
| has subclass | (noun) a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote
double obelisk, diesis, double dagger |
| has subclass | (noun) the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character, letter |
| has subclass | (noun) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"
space, blank |
| has subclass | (noun) a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound
phonetic symbol |
| has subclass | (noun) a character that is used to indicates a mathematical relation or operation
mathematical symbol |
| has subclass | (noun) any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance"
runic letter, rune |
| has subclass | (noun) a graphic character used in picture writing
pictograph |
| has subclass | (noun) a graphic character that indicates the meaning of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it; "Chinese characters are ideograms"
ideogram, ideograph |
| has subclass | (noun) a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram
radical |
| has subclass | (noun) a shorthand character
stenograph |
| has subclass | c/Brahmic graphemes |
| has instance | e/Beadie Russell |
| has instance | e/Bill Buchanan |
| has instance | e/Boo-Boo Bear |
| has instance | e/Bruhita |
| has instance | e/Diana (Dyosa) |
| has instance | e/Dyosa (character) |
| has instance | e/Fifi La Fume |
| has instance | e/Jack West Jr |
| has instance | e/Janis Gold |
| has instance | e/List of Merlin characters |
| has instance | e/List of Tekken characters#Asuka Kazama |
| has instance | e/List of Tekken characters#Combot |
| has instance | e/List of Tekken characters#Jun Kazama |
| has instance | e/List of Tekken characters#Mokujin |
| has instance | e/Manny Santos |
| has instance | e/Montana Max |
| has instance | e/Oscar Blaketon |
| has instance | e/Plucky Duck |
| has instance | e/Salaminsim |
| has instance | e/Sam Peel |
| has instance | e/Shirakawa Kaede |
| has instance | e/The Monster (Lost) |
| has instance | e/Toshi (American Dad) |
| has instance | e/Trevor "Trife" Hector |
| has instance | e/simple/Jack (Tekken) |
