TERMINAL

Embodiments of the present invention provide a terminal, where the terminal includes: a conductive sheet, configured to form a capacitor with a hand when the hand holds the terminal; and a processor, connected to the conductive sheet, where the processor is configured to detect a capacitance of the capacitor, and determine a holding gesture for the terminal according to the detected capacitance and a preset correspondence between a capacitance and a holding gesture. In the embodiments of the present invention, a conductive sheet is disposed in a terminal, and when a hand holds the terminal, the conductive sheet forms a capacitor with the hand. When the terminal is held by using different holding gestures, capacitances of capacitors formed between the conductive sheet in the terminal and the hand are different, and a correspondence between a capacitance and a holding gesture is preset by using this difference. Therefore, during actual detection, a holding gesture for the terminal can be determined by performing matching according to a detected capacitance of the capacitor and the preset correspondence.