character

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkæ.ɹɪk.tə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A being involved in the action of a story; a persona. countable
    — [I]n a tragedy, or epick poem, the hero of the piece must be advanced foremost to the view of the reader or spectator; he must outshine the rest of all the characters; he must appear the prince of them, like the sun in the Copernican system, encompassed with the less noble planets …
  2. A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; nature; phene. countable
    — A single locus governing the petal colour character was detected on the linkage group A2.
  3. A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type. countable,uncountable
    — A study of the suspect's character and his cast iron alibi ruled him out.
  4. Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength. uncountable
    — He has a great deal of character.
  5. A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma. countable
    — Julius Caesar is a great historical character.
  6. A written or printed symbol, or letter. countable
    — It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
  7. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people. countable,dated
    — an inscription in the Runic character
  8. A secret cipher; a way of writing in code. countable,dated
  9. One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character. countable
    — We'll start at the beginning, with the basic building blocks not just of emoji, nor even digital communication, but of all written language: characters and character sets.
  10. A person or individual, especially one who is unknown. countable,informal
    — We saw a shady character slinking out of the office with some papers.
  11. An assignment of complex numbers to each element of a group, in particular a finite abelian group. More precisely, a group homomorphism into the group of units of a field (usually ℂ). countable
  12. Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty. countable
    — in the miserable character of a slave
  13. The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation. countable,dated
    — a man's character for truth and veracity
  14. A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc. countable,dated
  15. Personal appearance. countable,obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To write (using characters); to describe. obsolete
    — O Roſalind, theſe Trees ſhall be my Bookes, / And in their barkes my thoughts Ile charracter, / That euery eye, which in this Forreſt lookes, / Shall ſee thy vertue witneſt euery where.

词形变化

characters plural characters present,singular,third-person charactering participle,present charactered participle,past charactered past

词汇关系

下位词
bell character cartoon character Chinese character control character delete character dominant character escape character Hàn character Hebrew character main character main-character syndrome non-printing character null character pi character player character round character staple character stock character
衍生词
ASA character base character bicharacter big-character poster biocharacter box-drawing character break character breakout character build character carriage control character character actor character actress character amnesia character arc character-assassinate character assassination character-based character beat character-building character cell character class character density character disorder character encoding character-forming characterful character generator character head characterhood characterisation characterization characterise characterize characterism characterist characteristic characterless characterlike character man character map character neurosis characternym characterologist characterology characteropathy character part character piece character recognition character reference character set character shoe character state character study character theory character trait character user interface characterwise character witness charactery charactonym charactron Chinese character CJK character CJKV character cocharacter combining character demicharacter Dirichlet character gallow character get into character ghost character Han character Hebrew character in character intelligent character recognition intercharacter lead character main character syndrome megacharacter metacharacter microcharacter multicharacter noncharacter non-player character non-printable character optical character recognition original character out-of-character out of character paragraph character private-use character pseudocharacter replacement character setaceous Hebrew character special character subcharacter supercharacter supplementary character title character

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)
Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der.
Latin charactērder.
Old French caracterebor.
Middle English caracter
English character
From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “to engrave”). Doublet of charakter.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)
Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der.
Latin charactērder.
Old French caracterebor.
Middle English caracter
English character
From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “to engrave”). Doublet of charakter.
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