Dongba pictograph has been known as "the only living pictograph in the world".In the aspects of image recognition, content interpretation,the current English and Chinese character recognition system often can not be applied to Dongba pictograph.Concerning the difficulties in the identification of Dongba pictograph, a new character recognition is proposed. Topological features processing and projection methodcompose thefeature extraction method,then, the character recognition method based on template matching is adopted.It is showed that the feature extraction method based on the intrinsic characteristic of the pictograph,and the Dongba character recognition method based on template matching,has high accuracy through the experiment.