Char

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Char may refer to:

• Char, an abbreviation for character
  • Character (computing), a data type in computer science often called a "char"
  • A video game character, a character appearing in a video game or computer game
• CHAR-FM, Canadian radio station based out of CFS Alert, Nunavut.
• Charring, the incomplete combustion of biological tissue
• Salvelinus, a genus of fish
• Char (StarCraft), a planet in the StarCraft universe
• A floodplain sediment island in the Ganges Delta
• Char, a common slang term for tea throughout British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Char, a Rare card from the card game Magic the Gathering
• Charmander, a Pokemon
• Chimchar, a Pokemon

In people:

• Char Aznable, a character from the Mobile Suit Gundam series
• Char Margolis, an American spiritualist
• René Char, a French poet
• Rajput, a Caste among Hindus in India, Pakistan and Nepal
• A charlady, an English house cleaner

In tanks:

• 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