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Characene era
The Characene era is the dating system of the Parthian-era kingdom of Characene, whose kings dated coins by the Seleucid era from Hyspaosines, around 125 BC.
Character (computing)
Character (computing): an abstract unit of text represented by a numeric code point in a coded character set such as Unicode (1,114,112 code points, UTF-8/16/32 encoding forms), distinct from bytes and grapheme clusters.
Character Biosciences
Character Biosciences is a Jersey City, New Jersey biotechnology company, founded as Clover Therapeutics in 2019 and led by co-founder and CEO Cheng Zhang, developing precision therapies for degenerative eye diseases.
Character encoding
Character encoding maps written characters to numbers and bytes for computer storage and transmission. Covers ASCII (1963), Extended ASCII codepages, and Unicode with UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 and ISO/IEC 10646.
Characters of God of War
Characters of God of War: Kratos and Atreus lead Santa Monica Studio's PlayStation franchise, spanning the Greek saga (from 2005) and the Norse era (2018 onward) with Baldur, Freya, Mimir, Brok, Sindri, Odin, Thor, and Faye.
Charairongba
Charairongba (ꯆꯔꯥꯏꯔꯣꯡꯕ) was a king of Manipur in northeast India who reigned until 1709 and was the first Meitei king to adopt Hinduism, taking the name Pitambar Singh.
Charaka (चरक)
Charaka (चरक), legendary Indian physician who redacted the Agnivesha Tantra into the Charaka Samhita, foundational Ayurvedic text of internal medicine; possibly Kanishka's court physician, dates contested.
Charaka Samhita (चरकसंहिता)
The Charaka Samhita (चरकसंहिता) is a foundational Sanskrit compendium of classical Ayurveda, dated between about 100 BCE and 200 CE, forming the Brihat Trayi with the Sushruta Samhita and the works of Vagbhata.
Charan
Charan (चारण) is a bardic community of northwestern India that served the Rajput courts of Rajasthan as poets, genealogists, historians, advisors, and warriors, peaking in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Charan Boro
Charan Boro, born 1979, is an Indian politician of the Bodoland People's Front who has represented Mazbat in the Assam Legislative Assembly since 2016 and serves as a state minister.
Charan Das Mahant
Charan Das Mahant, born 1954, is an Indian National Congress politician serving as Leader of the Opposition in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly.
Charan Singh (चौधरी चरण सिंह)
Chaudhary Charan Singh (चौधरी चरण सिंह), fifth Prime Minister of India (28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980) and first non-Congress Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh; architect of the 1951 Zamindari Abolition Act, author of agrarian-economy books, awarded the posthumous Bharat Ratna in 2024.
Charandas
Charandas (चरणदास; 1703–1782) was a North Indian sant poet and yogi who founded the Charandasi Sampradaya, a Delhi-based devotional order combining Krishna worship with sant discipline.
Charanjit Singh Channi
Charanjit Singh Channi, Indian National Congress leader, 27th and first Dalit Chief Minister of Punjab (111 days, 2021-2022), three-time Chamkaur Sahib MLA, and Jalandhar (SC) Lok Sabha MP since 2024.
Charat Singh
Charat Singh (ਚੜਤ ਸਿੰਘ), also romanised as Charhat Singh, was a Sikh misldar who founded the Sukerchakia Misl, with its capital at Gujranwala, and was the grandfather of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
Charbel Makhlouf (يوسف أنطون مخلوف)
Charbel Makhlouf, born Youssef Antoun Makhlouf (1828–1898), was a Lebanese Maronite priest and hermit at Annaya, canonized in 1977 and known for reported miracles at his tomb.
Charcoal-burning suicide
Charcoal-burning suicide (燒炭) is suicide by burning barbecue charcoal in an enclosed space, causing death by carbon monoxide poisoning; it emerged in Hong Kong in 1998, spread across East Asia, and is countered by means restriction.
Charge (warfare)
Charge (warfare): rapid attack to close with and break an enemy by shock, notably the cavalry charge, a psychological weapon defeated by firm infantry; obsolete under modern firepower, surviving as mechanized assault.
Charge Amps
Charge Amps AB is a Swedish electric-vehicle charging company based in Solna, Stockholm, that makes smart charging stations, cables, and cloud software for home, commercial, and public use.
Charge card
A charge card is a payment card that must be paid in full each month, with no interest and no pre-set spending limit, pioneered by Diners Club in 1950.
Chargé d'affaires
Chargé d'affaires (chargé d'affaires ad interim, en pied): a diplomat below ambassador rank who heads a diplomatic mission temporarily or permanently, governed by the 1961 Vienna Convention's third class of heads of mission.
Charge of the Light Brigade
Charge of the Light Brigade: British light cavalry attack, 25 October 1854, Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War. A misread order from Raglan, delivered by Nolan, sent Cardigan's 673 men against Russian guns; over 260 casualties.
Charge to Yue (Yue ming)
The Charge to Yue (说命) is a three-chapter text of the Book of Documents recording how the Shang king Wu Ding appointed Yue, found by dream, as minister.
Charge+Zone
Charge+Zone, legally Tecso Charge Zone Limited, is an Indian electric-vehicle charging-network company founded in 2018 by Kartikey Hariyani, headquartered in Vadodara, Gujarat, operating public fast-charging stations.
Chargeback
A chargeback is the reversal of a card transaction in which the cardholder's bank pulls funds back from the merchant's bank after the purchase is disputed.
Chargebee
Chargebee is a subscription-management and recurring-billing software company founded in 2011 in Chennai, India, which raised $250 million at a $3.5 billion valuation in 2022.
Chari
Chari is a Casablanca-based B2B e-commerce and fintech company serving Moroccan corner stores, founded in 2020 by Ismael Belkhayat and Sophia Alj, with over 20,000 businesses onboarded.
Charibael
Charibael (Sabaic Karibʾīl) was the first-century king of the Homerites and Sabaites in southern Arabia, ruling from Ẓafar and a friend of the Roman emperors.
Charilaos Trikoupis
Charilaos Trikoupis was a Greek politician who served seven times as Prime Minister of Greece and led an ambitious program of economic modernization in the late 19th century.
Chariots of Tutankhamun
The Chariots of Tutankhamun are six dismantled chariots found in his tomb (KV62) at Thebes, dating to about 1332–1323 BCE, the only complete chariots from a single Egyptian burial.