1. A letter (e.g., a, b, c, or d), digit (e.g., 1, 2, or 3), or special graphic symbol (e.g., *, |, or -) treated as a single unit of data. 2. A data type for an attribute designating that values for the attribute will be represented using characters. For example, the character data type would be appropriate for the attribute COUNTRY, if the values assigned are like United States, Brazil, Canada, Thailand, and so on.
