The invention provides a displaying method for multi-line characters. The displaying method for the multi-line characters comprises the first step that the width of the paragraph of the characters is obtained by searching from the first character of the paragraph to the line break or carriage return or the end of the paragraph; the number of the characters of the paragraph is assumed to be n, and n belongs to natural numbers; the second step that whether the width of the n characters exceeds the width of the displaying area is judged, and if the width of the n characters does not exceed the width of the displaying area, the n characters of this line are directly displayed, line feed is conducted, the forth step is entered, if the width of the n characters exceeds the width of the displaying area, the third step is entered; the third step that the maximum character number m of the width capable of being displayed within the displaying area is obtained again through searching from the first character to the nth character, the m characters are displayed, then line feed is conducted, wherein the m is smaller than the n; the forth step that the displayed characters are offset, the first step is continuously repeated until the end of the characters of the paragraph. By means of the displaying method for the multi-line characters, the operation effect is good, the refresh frequency is fast, and the performance of a user interface is well improved.