Provided is a portable terminal equipment which can prevent operation keys from being increased and which is capable of reducing the numbers of pushing the operation keys down at the time of input of characters. The portable terminal equipment has a plurality of operation keys (10˜21) to which characters and functions are assigned are provided in an operation section to be capable of being pushed down, being released from being pushed down, and sliding, a touch sensor section (5) which detects each of the operation keys being pushed down and being released from being pushed down, a moving sensor (2) which detects the operation key sliding, and a control section (101) which executes a function assigned to the operation key, when the touch sensor section (5) detects the operation key being pushed down and then detects the operation key being released from being pushed down, and which makes a character assigned to the pushed down operation key be displayed in a display section (3), when the moving sensor (2) detects the operation key sliding while the touch sensor section (5) is detecting the operation key being pushed down.