Abstract: A Chinese character display apparatus includes a font memory for storing character fonts and tone symbol fonts. There is a first memory for storing strings of pairs of a character code and a tone code arranged in order of the character arrangement in a sentence that is to be displayed. A code selection device reads out the character codes and tone codes from the first memory in order of the character arrangement and distinguishes the character codes from the tone codes. There is a second memory having a first memory area for storing the character fonts respectively indicated by the character codes, in order of the character arrangement, and a second memory area for storing the tone symbol fonts respectively indicated by the tone codes.