The invention provides a quaternary array micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) vector hydrophone microstructure. The quaternary array MEMS vector hydrophone microstructure comprises a square substrate, wherein four cross-shaped cantilever beams are etched on the square substrate, a minitype cylindrical object is fixed in the center of each cross-shaped cantilever beam, and voltage dependent resistors are arranged on the cross-shaped cantilever beams. Included angles between the four cross-shaped cantilever beams and the square substrate are different with each other and are respectively 0 degree, 30 degrees, 45 degrees and 60 degrees. The quaternary array MEMS vector hydrophone microstructure is made through the MEMS technology and has the advantages of being highly sensitive, low in energy consumption and micro in size. Compared with the single vector hydrophone, a hydrophone made of the quaternary array MEMS vector hydrophone microstructure is high in directional accuracy, strong in space resolution ratio power and capable of solving the problem of port and starboard ambiguity. Compared with the traditional hydrophone array, the size of the array of the quaternary array MEMS vector hydrophone microstructure is greatly reduced. The quaternary array MEMS vector hydrophone microstructure is integrally formed through the MEMS technology, high consistency exists among array elements, and burden on calculation of sequential arithmetic is lightened.