Char

Char may refer to:

People

Job titles

• Char, short for charwoman, a historical term for someone who does part-time cleaning

Fictional characters

• Char (Ninjago)
• Char Aznable, from the Gundam media franchise

Individuals

• Char Fontane, American actress
• Char Margolis, American spiritualist
• René Char (1907–1988), French poet
• The Char family of Colombia:
  • Fuad Char, Colombian senator
  • Alejandro Char Chaljub, mayor of Barranquilla
  • Arturo Char Chaljub, Colombian senator
  • David Char Navas, Colombian senator
  • Sofia Daccarett Char, better known as Sofia Carson, American actress and singer
• Char (musician), stage name of Japanese musician Hisato Takenaka (born 1955)

Other uses

• River Char, a river in Dorset, England
• Char (chemistry), the solid material that forms during the initial stage of combustion of a carbonaceous material
• Char (fish), a common name for fishes in the genus Salvelinus, including Arctic char
• A char in ANSI/ISO C is a value holding one byte (which was the size of a character in legacy encodings such as ASCII)
• A common slang term for tea throughout the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries
• A characteristic (algebra) of a ring in mathematics
• Char (Cyrillic), a disused letter
• Any French tank (from char d'assaut), but more specifically one with a short designation such as:
  • Char B1, a French heavy tank manufactured before the Second World War
  • Char 2C, a super-heavy French tank developed during the First World War
  • Char D1, a pre-World War II French tank
  • Char D2, a French tank of the Interbellum
  • Char G1, a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank
  • Char, as an abbreviation of Character

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Char
• All pages with titles containing Char
• Charr (disambiguation)
• Chars, commune in France