Character (symbol)
A character is a semiotic sign, symbol, grapheme, or glyph – typically a letter, a numerical digit, an ideogram, a hieroglyph, a punctuation mark or another typographic mark. == History == The Ancient Greek word χαρακτήρ (charaktēr) is an agent noun of the verb χαράσσω (charassō) with a meaning "to sharpen, to whet", and also "to engrave, to carve", from a Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰer- "cut" also continued in Irish gearr and English gash, which is perhaps an early loan ultimately from the same Greek root.