# Char

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**Char** may refer to:

## People

- [Char Fontane](/source/Char_Fontane), American actress
- [Char Margolis](/source/Char_Margolis), American spiritualist
- [René Char](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Char) (1907–1988), French poet
- The Char family of Colombia: - [Fuad Char](/source/Fuad_Char), Colombian senator - [Alejandro Char Chaljub](/source/Alejandro_Char_Chaljub), mayor of Barranquilla - [Arturo Char Chaljub](/source/Arturo_Char_Chaljub), Colombian senator - [David Char Navas](/source/David_Char_Navas), Colombian senator - Sofia Daccarett Char, better known as [Sofia Carson](/source/Sofia_Carson), American actress and singer
- [Char (musician)](/source/Char_(musician)), stage name of Japanese musician Hisato Takenaka (born 1955)

## Other uses

- [River Char](/source/River_Char), a river in Dorset, England
- [Char (chemistry)](/source/Char_(chemistry)), the solid material that forms during the initial stage of combustion of a carbonaceous material
- [Char (fish)](/source/Char_(fish)), a common name for fishes in the genus *Salvelinus*, including Arctic char
- [Char *(Ninjago)*](/source/Char_(Ninjago)), a character in *Ninjago*
- [Char Aznable](/source/Char_Aznable), a fictional character from the *Mobile Suit Gundam* series
- A [char](/source/Character_(computing)#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](/source/Tea) throughout the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries
- A [charwoman](/source/Charwoman), a cleaning woman
- A [characteristic (algebra)](/source/Characteristic_(algebra)) of a ring in mathematics
- Any French tank (from *char d'assaut*), but more specifically one with a short designation such as: - [Char B1](/source/Char_B1), a French heavy tank manufactured before the Second World War - [Char 2C](/source/Char_2C), a super-heavy French tank developed during the First World War - [Char D1](/source/Char_D1), a pre-World War II French tank - [Char D2](/source/Char_D2), a French tank of the Interbellum - [Char G1](/source/Char_G1), a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank

## See also

- [Charr (disambiguation)](/source/Charr_(disambiguation))
- [Chars](/source/Chars), commune in France

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