Provided is portable electronic equipment capable of mutually converting character information and simplified character information. The portable electronic equipment is equipped with a display unit; a character information acquisition unit that acquires character information; a trigger signal detection unit that detects a prescribed trigger signal; a character information conversion unit that simplifies character information by extracting sentence elements from the character information and rearranging the sentence elements into a prescribed order or simplifies the character information by replacing prescribed words in the character information with symbols pertaining to said words, when the trigger signal is detected by the trigger signal detection unit; and a display control unit that displays on the display unit the character information simplified by the character information conversion unit.