The invention discloses a method for identifying handwritten Uigur characters, which belongs to the field of character mode identification and can effectively identify 128 classes of handwritten Uigur characters in real time. The method comprises the following three parts of: (1) establishment of a Uigur character component dictionary and a handwritten Uigur character component library; (2) a character training process, comprising character one-line information acquisition, character pre-processing, component partition during training, extraction of time division direction characteristics, calculation of training characteristics of components and the like; and (3) a character identification process, comprising character one-line information acquisition, character pre-processing, componentpartition during training, extraction of time division direction characteristics and point component characteristics, characteristic fusion of components, identification result output and the like. The method is the basis for identifying whole Uigur words. By using the method and a handwritten Uigur word splitting method, a user can freely, naturally and smoothly write the Uigur words at random angle in a mobile platform handwriting frame such as an intelligent mobile phone and the like, and the method can realize robust identification.