This application provides a method for waking up a terminal, a terminal, and a network device. In technical solutions provided in this application, a network device determines, from a plurality of wake-up signals that can wake up a to-be-woken-up terminal and that need to be monitored by the to-be-woken-up terminal for one PO, a target wake-up signal of the to-be-woken-up terminal, and sends the target wake-up signal to the to-be-woken-up terminal. If the terminal detects, for the one PO, at least one wake-up signal of the plurality of wake-up signals that can wake up the terminal and that need to be monitored by the terminal, the terminal monitors a downlink control channel at the PO.