Etymology 1

Noun

1. a time; a turn or occasion
2. a turn of work; a labour or item of business
3. an odd job, a chore or piece of housework
4. a charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady

   “I had to scrub the kitchen today, because the char couldn’t come”

Verb

1. to turn, especially away or aside.
2. to work, especially to do housework.

   • 1893, She explained that she was the commissionaire's wife, who did the charing, and I gave her the order for the coffee. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Naval Treaty’ (Norton 2005, p.677)

Noun

1. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus or the brook trout. Scientific name: Salvelinus fontinalis.

   “Among other native delicacies, they give you fresh char.”

Verb

1. To burn something to charcoal.
2. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.

Noun

1. A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
   • 1997, Cay S Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 1.1: Fundamentals

     Chars can be considered as integers if need be without an explicit cast.

   • 1998, John R Hubbard, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Fundamentals of Computing with C++

     Then since each char occupies one byte, these four bytes represent the three letters 'B', 'y', 'e', and the null character NUL.

   • 2000, Ken Brownsey, The essence of data structures using C++

     Thus string variables are pointer variables to chars.