A vehicle includes a display for providing a character input interface, a touch input apparatus for sensing a plurality of sub gestures sequentially through a touch portion, and a controller for controlling the character input interface to display, when a difference between a direction of a first sub gesture of the plurality of sensed sub gestures and a direction of a second sub gesture sensed within a first delay time period starting at a time at which the first sub gesture ends is greater than or equal to a reference direction difference, a character corresponding to a gesture including the first sub gesture and the second sub gesture.