A display apparatus for use with a cathode-ray tube capable of displaying patterns in interlaced scanning and non-interlaced scanning operation modes, comprising a composite video signal synthesizer, a memory for storing pattern data, a mode setting circuit for the memory, a data selection signal generator and a raster line number signal generator. The memory stores data for relatively simple patterns such as alphabetical letters and those for relatively complicated patterns such as Chinese characters in individually particular areas in the memory addresses of these different areas are identified by a combination of the data selection signal and the raster line number signal supplied to the memory from the data selection signal generator and the raster line number signal generator. Accordingly, the apparatus is capable of displaying both relatively simple and relatively complicated patterns with satisfactory resolution and with a relatively small-scale structure.