Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a structure of an animation font file and a text displaying method of a handheld terminal. The structure of the animation font file and the text displaying method may realize an animation using limited hardware resources without using images or videos by sequentially displaying plural font images with respect to input text data in accordance with times set for each frame, in which the text data are input by storing font images through a basic mapping table and an extended mapping table, so as to output different font images for each frame with respect to one text data.