The invention provides a coarse-to-fine fingerprint identification method fusing second-level and third-level features. The method includes the following steps that firstly, a high-resolution fingerprint image database comprising the third-level fingerprint features is constructed; secondly, fingerprint minutiae features and the third-level features in a collected fingerprint image are calibrated; thirdly, whether the number of the minutiae features included in the collected fingerprint image is smaller than the threshold or not is judged, if yes, the step e is executed, and if not, the step d is executed; fourthly, the minutiae features are used for performing primary retrieving and matching, and a first candidate fingerprint set with a high matching score is solved; fifthly, accurate matching is performed with the third-level features, and a second candidate fingerprint set with a high matching score is solved; sixthly, the collected fingerprint image and fingerprints in the second candidate fingerprint set are determined. According to the coarse-to-fine fingerprint identification method fusing the second-level and third-level features, under the premise that efficiency is taken into consideration, the fingerprint retrieving and matching precision is achieved with high precision.