Char is the solid material that remains after light gases (e.g. coal gas) and 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.

Char may refer to:

• Char, the solid material forming during the initial stage of combustion of a carbonaceous material
• River Char, a river in Dorset, England
• Char (genus), a genus of fish
• Arctic char, a cold-water fish in the Salmonidae family, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic and alpine lakes and coastal waters
• A char in ANSI/ISO C is a value holding one byte (which was the size of a character in legacy encodings such as ASCII)
• A floodplain sediment island in the Ganges Delta
• A common slang term for tea throughout British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Community Hebrew Academy of Richmond Hill, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto
• A charwoman, an English house cleaner, usually part-time

is a Japanese bi-monthly Yaoi/Shojo manga magazine published by Tokuma Shoten. First released in 1994, the magazine has since been adapted into two different spinoffs.