A character string display method includes: acquiring character string data, the character string data being data corresponding to a to-be-displayed character string, and the character string including at least one character; analyzing the character string data to generate an analysis result, the analysis result including number of digit information related to the character string and digit sequence information of each character; and displaying, digit by digit according to the digit sequence information and the number of digit information, a picture set corresponding to each character, the picture set including at least one picture.