PURPOSE: To embody terminal equipment making it possible to perform the recognition of inputted contents and the confirmation of a character recognition result, etc., without performing the scroll operation of a screen by a user, regarding a method for displaying the information inputted by a pen input, etc., on the screen.

CONSTITUTION: In a character input device provided with an input pad 12 where an area which is displayed on a screen and accepts a handwritten input is set and a recognition processing part 20 performing the character recognition of the data handwritten and inputted by the input pad 12, data display fields 10 at least one of which is set on the screen and in which various kinds of data are displayed and a display control part displaying the character recognition result of the data inputted from the input pad 12 corresponding to the data display field 10 on a data display field 12 are provided.