| Subject | English | Japanese |
| comp., MS | character string | 文字列 (A set of characters treated as a unit and interpreted by a computer as text rather than numbers. A character string can contain any sequence of elements from a given character set, such as letters, numbers, control characters, and extended ASCII characters) |
| gen. | character string | 字列 |
| comp. | n character string type | 文字列型 |
| comp. | n graphic character string | 図形文字列 |
| gen. | italic character string | 斜向字列 |
| comp. | n length of a character string | 文字列の長さ |
| comp. | n null character string | ヌル文字列 |