Character is fine when talking about Unicode. As in: “That character at code point U+1F918 is not showing up as a proper glyph for me.” You might be thinking o

Character is fine when talking about Unicode. As in: “That character at code point U+1F918 is not showing up as a proper glyph for me.” You might be thinking of how a single Unicode character does not necessarily map to a single byte in UTF-8 (the most common Unicode encoding). Some programming languages call a single byte variable a char or character; is that what you are referring to? Incidentally, the U+1F918 before 'about' is not available as a glyph on my system — i.e., I don't have a font installed that has it. The creator probably uses a Mac (as evidenced by his exclusive use of ⌘).