Embodiments of this application provide a resource request sending method, user equipment, and a base station, and relate to the communications field, to resolve a problem about how a short PUCCH carries an SR. The method includes: transmitting, by user equipment UE, a first sequence on a resource used to transmit physical uplink control signaling, to carry the physical uplink control signaling and indicate a resource request SR; or transmitting, by user equipment UE, physical uplink control signaling and indicating a resource request SR by using a first subcarrier group on a resource used to transmit the physical uplink control signaling. The embodiments of this application are applied to a scenario in which physical uplink control signaling carries an SR.