This application provides a method for reporting a terminal device capability and a communications apparatus. The method includes: The terminal device generates first indication information and sends the first indication information to a network device. The first indication information is used to indicate one or more frequency domain parameters and one or more of the following capability parameters associated with each frequency domain parameter: a port quantity, a spatial domain parameter, a reference signal resource quantity, and a total port quantity. The frequency domain parameter is used to indicate a maximum quantity of frequency domain units that can be supported by the terminal device. The frequency domain unit is a frequency domain unit based on which the terminal device feeds back a PMI. Each capability parameter group may be used to indicate one combination of a plurality of parameters that can be supported by the terminal device.