diff --git a/packages/runtime-tests/integration/layout/text-measure-parity.test.tsx b/packages/runtime-tests/integration/layout/text-measure-parity.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db50009
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/runtime-tests/integration/layout/text-measure-parity.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import { defineComponent } from "vue";
+import { expect, test } from "vite-plus/test";
+import { render } from "@vue-tui/testing";
+import { Box, Text } from "@vue-tui/runtime";
+import stripAnsi from "strip-ansi";
+
+test("multi-line truncate text keeps its line count (height)", async () => {
+  const { lastFrame } = await render(
+    defineComponent(() => () => (
+      <Box width={24}>
+        <Text wrap="truncate">{"x\nyhello"}</Text>
+      </Box>
+    )),
+    { columns: 100 },
+  );
+  const lines = stripAnsi(lastFrame({ trimLines: true })!).split("\n");
+  expect(lines.length).toBe(2);
+  expect(lines[0]).toBe("x");
+  expect(lines[1]).toBe("yhello");
+});
diff --git a/packages/runtime/src/host/text-measure.test.ts b/packages/runtime/src/host/text-measure.test.ts
index 90937a8..bef8c99 100644
--- a/packages/runtime/src/host/text-measure.test.ts
+++ b/packages/runtime/src/host/text-measure.test.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { defineComponent, h } from "vue";
 import { expect, test } from "vite-plus/test";
 import stringWidth from "string-width";
 import { createText, createTextLeaf, createVirtualText } from "./nodes.ts";
-import { flattenLeaves, wrapText } from "./text-measure.ts";
+import { flattenLeaves, measureTextNatural, wrapText } from "./text-measure.ts";
 import { renderToString } from "../render-to-string.ts";
 import { Box } from "../components/Box.ts";
 import { Text } from "../components/Text.ts";
@@ -267,6 +267,12 @@ test("ZWJ emoji truncation does not exceed requested width", () => {
   expect(stringWidth(result[0]!)).toBeLessThanOrEqual(2);
 });
 
+test("measureTextNatural uses widest line and raw line count", () => {
+  expect(measureTextNatural("x\nyhello")).toEqual({ width: 6, height: 2 });
+  expect(measureTextNatural("中文\nx")).toEqual({ width: 4, height: 2 });
+  expect(measureTextNatural("")).toEqual({ width: 0, height: 1 });
+});
+
 test("clipped empty write does not corrupt existing wide characters", () => {
   // When a write is clipped to an empty string, the boundary cleanup
   // must not run, otherwise it would destroy a wide character that
diff --git a/packages/runtime/src/host/text-measure.ts b/packages/runtime/src/host/text-measure.ts
index dc8b45f..8a130b0 100644
--- a/packages/runtime/src/host/text-measure.ts
+++ b/packages/runtime/src/host/text-measure.ts
@@ -66,6 +66,13 @@ export function wrapText(text: string, width: number, mode: WrapMode = "wrap"):
 
   // truncate variants — delegate to cli-truncate (grapheme-aware, ellipsis
   // within budget, preserves \n). Matches Ink's wrapText truncate path.
+  //
+  // Optimisation: if every line already fits within `width`, return lines
+  // as-is. This avoids cliTruncate treating the whole multi-line string as
+  // a single run when no truncation is actually needed (which would collapse
+  // perfectly-fitting multi-line text to one truncated line).
+  const lines = text.split("\n");
+  if (lines.every((l) => stringWidth(l) <= width)) return lines;
   const position =
     mode === "truncate-start" ? "start" : mode === "truncate-middle" ? "middle" : "end";
   return cliTruncate(text, width, { position }).split("\n");
@@ -82,3 +89,14 @@ export function measureText(
     height: wrapped.length,
   };
 }
+
+/**
+ * Natural (unwrapped) dimensions of `text`, mode-independent. Mirrors Ink's
+ * measure-text.js: width = widest line, height = number of \n-separated lines.
+ */
+export function measureTextNatural(text: string): { width: number; height: number } {
+  const lines = text.split("\n");
+  let width = 0;
+  for (const line of lines) width = Math.max(width, stringWidth(line));
+  return { width, height: lines.length };
+}
diff --git a/packages/runtime/src/host/yoga.ts b/packages/runtime/src/host/yoga.ts
index fccab58..80ad6dc 100644
--- a/packages/runtime/src/host/yoga.ts
+++ b/packages/runtime/src/host/yoga.ts
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ export function applyYogaProp(node: YogaCarrier, key: string, value: unknown): v
 
 // --- text measure binding ------------------------------------------------
 
-import { flattenLeaves, measureText } from "./text-measure.ts";
+import { flattenLeaves, measureTextNatural, wrapText } from "./text-measure.ts";
 
 export function bindTextMeasure(text: TuiText): void {
   text.yoga.setMeasureFunc((availableWidth) => {
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ export function bindTextMeasure(text: TuiText): void {
     // so yoga doesn't crash trying to measure an empty string.
     if (raw === "") return { width: 0, height: 0 };
 
-    const natural = measureText(raw, Infinity, text.props.wrap ?? "wrap");
+    const natural = measureTextNatural(raw);
 
     // Text fits into container, no need to wrap.
     if (natural.width <= availableWidth) return natural;
@@ -338,7 +338,8 @@ export function bindTextMeasure(text: TuiText): void {
       return natural;
     }
 
-    return measureText(raw, availableWidth, text.props.wrap ?? "wrap");
+    const wrapped = wrapText(raw, availableWidth, text.props.wrap ?? "wrap");
+    return measureTextNatural(wrapped.join("\n"));
   });
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/runtime/src/index.ts b/packages/runtime/src/index.ts
index d268822..72e18dd 100644
--- a/packages/runtime/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/runtime/src/index.ts
@@ -38,4 +38,4 @@ export {
   type KittyKeyboardOptions,
   type KittyFlagName,
 } from "./io/kitty-keyboard.ts";
-export { measureText } from "./host/text-measure.ts";
+export { measureText, measureTextNatural } from "./host/text-measure.ts";