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subcharacter

subcharacter noun: a lesser or secondary character in fiction.

Noun

subcharacter (plural subcharacters)

  1. A lesser or secondary character in fiction.
    • The characters, the subcharacters, the mature but tragic love story, all appealed to me. And the technique of telling the stories with a narrator who would function like a Greek chorus occurred to me in what I thought was a brilliant flash.2007, R. Barton Palmer, Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen, page 65
  2. Any of the components making up a complex text character.
    • However, as discussed by Melton, a Chinese character is an ideograph which frequently contains two or more parts called subcharacters. The subcharacters are commonly called radicals in Chinese lexicography.1990, Allen Kent, James G. Williams, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers, volume 6

Adjective

subcharacter (not comparable)

  1. Of less than one text character.

Forms of subcharacter

pluralsubcharacters

Origin of subcharacter

From sub- + character.

Questions about subcharacter

What does subcharacter mean?
Subcharacter means a lesser or secondary character in fiction.
What part of speech is subcharacter?
Subcharacter can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of subcharacter?
The plural of subcharacter is subcharacters.

Words near subcharacter in the dictionary

  1. subchannels
  2. subchanter
  3. subchanters
  4. subchapter
  5. subchapters
  6. subcharacter
  7. subcharacteristic
  8. subcharacteristics
  9. subcharacterization
  10. subcharacterizations
  11. subcharacterize

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