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1. A character is the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art (such as a novel, play, or film). Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr (χαρακτήρ "engraved or stamped mark, branding mark, symbol"). Starting from Tom Jones in 1749. the sense of "a part played by an actor" developed. Character, particularly when enacted by an actor in the theatre or cinema, involves "the illusion of being a human person."


2. In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme or a symbol, such as in an alphabet. Examples of characters include letters, numerical digits, and common punctuation marks. 

3. From the esoteric or mystical meanings, Early Modern learned authors abstracted a notion of Character as a code or hierarchical system that embodied all knowledge or all of reality, or a written representation of a philosophical language that would recover the "true names" lost in the confusion of tongues.


4. In Serbian, character in novel, play, or film, is pronounced "lik" and it means face, image or shape.

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