Embodiments of this application relate to the field of
wireless communication technologies, including the field of Wi-Fi technologies, and provide a
pilot symbol transmission method and an apparatus, to reduce a possibility that pilots sent by different users in a network collide. In the method, a terminal device may send a codeword, and the codeword may include a
pilot symbol and a data symbol. The
pilot symbol may include a non-zero pilot symbol and a zero pilot symbol, and the data symbol may include a non-zero data symbol and a zero data symbol. According to the foregoing solutions, the pilot symbol sent by the terminal device may include the non-zero pilot symbol and the zero pilot symbol, so that the pilot symbol sent by the terminal device is sparse.