The invention discloses an ethnic code capture method and an ethnic code capture device. The ethnic code capture method comprises the following steps: extracting baseband signals to obtain to-be-processed baseband data, and storing by child segments; respectively performing partial matched filtering (PMF) on all the child segments by taking a local pseudo code as a tap coefficient to obtain accumulation results to complete code phase search; caching the PMF processed results, respectively performing fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the results, and performing spectral analysis to complete frequency search; respectively performing parallel delivery on FFT processed output results, and then, accumulating by points to obtain M-point incoherent accumulation results, and looking up capture results, wherein the capture results can include but are not limited to a maximum correlation value, a secondary correlation value, frequency, a phase, the number of segments, and the like. According to the ethnic code capture method and the ethnic code capture device disclosed by the invention, by adopting a mode of PMF and FFT combination, the sensitivity of ethnic code capture is improved, and the rapid capture of an ethnic code is completed in an FPGA (field programmable gate array) chip, and moreover, the ethnic code capture device can be bound with a receiver channel, and under the condition that high sensitivity is met, the capture speed is remarkably improved, and therefore, the requirement of practical application is met.