simple past tense and past participle of character

(countable) A being involved in the action of a story. / (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.

(obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.

plural of character

(idiomatic, drama, role-playing games) Acting as the character, not as oneself.

(obsolete) A letter or character. / (obsolete) A character or personality. / (archaic) A magical symbol.

plural of charact

Full of character.

present participle of character

(computing) The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding. / (computing) A set of characters together with a character encoding.