Char (disambiguation)

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Char may refer to:

• Char, the solid material forming during the initial stage of combustion of a carbonaceous material
• River Char, a river in Dorset, England
• Char (genus), a genus of fish
• Arctic char, a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic and alpine lakes and coastal waters
• 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)
• Char, the name of floodplain sediment islands in the Ganges Delta
• A common slang term for tea throughout the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Community Hebrew Academy of Richmond Hill, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto
• A charwoman, a cleaning woman, often part-time
• A Characteristic (algebra) of a ring in mathematics

In people:

• Char Avell, a British singer-songwriter
• Char Aznable, a character from the Mobile Suit Gundam series
• Char Fontane, an American actress
• Char Margolis, an American spiritualist
• René Char, a 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

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

See also

• Charr (disambiguation)
• Chars, commune in France