Abstract: In a character display device for displaying characters on a display screen of a display unit (6): a refresh memory (2) stores character codes for respective display positions on the display screen; the refresh memory is supplied with addresses and thereby to sequentially produces character codes; a character generator (4) receives the character codes from the refresh memory and produces pixel signals representing character patterns of the character codes; a frame memory (8) receives and stores the pixel signals for display positions of the respective pixels; the frame memory is supplied with addresses and thereby sequentially produces pixel signals; and the display unit displays the pixel signals from the frame memory on the display screen.