神話的一個神名;渡船的船夫
Charon \Cha"ron\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] (Cless. Myth.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions. --Shak.
Charon n : (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades