- 字符串 zìfúchuàn stringA sequence of characters or symbols used in computing to represent data like text, program statements, or variable names.
- 字符集 zìfújí character setA collection of characters and symbols encoded for use in a computer system; often an abbreviation for [[编码字符集|編碼字符集|bian1 ma3 zi4 fu2 ji2]].
- 编码字符集 biānmǎzìfújí coded character setA specific collection of characters mapped to numeric codes for computer processing
- 连字符号 liánzìfúhào hyphenthe punctuation mark used to join words or parts of words together
- 通用字符集 tōngyòngzìfújí Universal Character SetUniversal Character Set (UCS); an ISO standard for character encoding used in computing
- 光学字符识别 guāngxuézìfúshíbié optical character recognitionoptical character recognition; OCR
- 非拉丁字符 fēilādīngzìfú non-Latin characterscharacters that are not part of the Latin or Roman alphabet
- 脱字符号 tuōzìfúhào caretthe caret symbol (^)
- 转义字符 zhuǎnyìzìfú escape character(computing) a character that invokes an alternative interpretation on the characters following it
- 连字符 liánzìfú hyphenthe punctuation mark used to connect words or syllables