The invention discloses a two-dimensional code identification method which comprises the steps that arraying directions of identification head code points, distances among the identification head code points, mass center positions of the identification head code points, a position of a dominant straight line, and the number of code elements in a content data component in a code word block are confirmed; a virtual state box of the whole code word block is obtained according to the arraying directions of the identification head code points, the distances among the identification head code points, the mass center positions of the identification head code points, the position of the dominant straight line, and the number of the code elements in the content data component in the code word block; a coded value indicated by each code element of the content data component is obtained according to the virtual state box of the whole code word block, and combined according to a set sequence; and coded information of the whole code word block is obtained. Correspondingly, the invention further discloses a two-dimensional code identification device, a two-dimensional code reading method and a two-dimensional code micro platemaking method. According to an approximate position of a locating code word block of the dominant straight line, an identification algorithm is simple, and an identification rate is high.