The invention discloses a DTMB symbol de-interleaving method. The method comprises the following step: a de-interleaving memory is logically divided into 52 rows such as from row 0 to row 51; each row respectively writes 72 symbols in a same interleaved frame; row 0 writes the symbols such as 0, 52, 104, ..., 3692 of an interleaved frame; row 1 writes 72 symbols such as 1, 53, 105, ..., 3693; row 51 writes the symbols such as 51, 103, 155, ..., 3743; row N contains (52-N+R) blocks, R is 0 or a positive integer, and the size of each block is M symbols; after data of the interleaved frame fully writes the last block in a row of the de-interleaving memory, subsequent data memorized in the row is covered in the block written with invalid data of the row; 51 X 52 symbols are fully prewritten when initialization; and then a frame of de-interleaving common signal data is read out every frame symbol is written. The application of the method can reduce the consumption of time domain symbol de-interleaving memory space.