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Char is the solid material that remains after light gases (eg.Coal gas) and tar (eg.Coal tar) have been driven-out or released from a carbonaceous material, during the initial stage of combustion, which is known as carbonization, charring, devolatilization or pyrolysis. Further stages of efficient combustion (with or without char deposits) are known as gasification reactions, ending quickly when the reversible gas phase water gas shift reaction reaches equilibrium.

Char may refer to:

• Character (computing), a data type in many programming languages that is often referred to by its keyword "char"
• CHAR-FM, Canadian radio station based out of CFS Alert, Nunavut.
• Charring, the incomplete combustion of biological tissue
• Salvelinus, a genus of fish; see also Arctic char
• A floodplain sediment island in the Ganges Delta
• Char, a common slang term for tea throughout British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Char (StarCraft), a planet in the StarCraft universe
• Char, a rare card from the card game Magic: The Gathering
• Charmander, a Pokemon
• Chimchar, a Pokemon
• Charminiature, a Pokemon

In people:

• Char Aznable, a character from the Mobile Suit Gundam series
• Char Margolis, an American spiritualist
• René Char, a French poet
• Rajput, a Caste among Hindus in India, Pakistan and Nepal
• A charlady, an English house cleaner

In tanks:

• Any French tank (from char d'assaut), but more specifically one with a short designation such as:
  • Char B1, a French heavy tank manufactured before the Second World War
  • Char 2C, a super-heavy French tank developed during the First World War
  • Char D1, a pre-World War II French tank
  • Char D2, a French tank of the Interbellum
  • Char G1, a French replacement project for the Char D2 medium tank