Abstract: In this study, 17 typhoons making landfall along the southeast China coast between 2004 and 2013 are selected to examine the characteristics of the boundary layer wind of landfalling typhoons. The wind profiles in the boundary layer are retrieved from the radial velocity data collected by ten coastal S-band Doppler radars, using the Hurricane Velocity Volume Processing (HVVP) methods. The retrieved wind profiles agree well with the sounding observations, with the root mean square errors of wind speed (wind direction) less than 2 m/s (5°). The composite wind profiles over the land exhibit a maximum tangential wind, similar to the nocturnal jet, above the surface layer (100 m) in the boundary layer. This is consistent with the results revealed by the dropsonde observations over the ocean. However, the height of the jet is above 1 km, higher than that (600 m) over the ocean. The inflow over the land in the boundary layer is much stronger than that over the ocean, due to the increase in surface friction over the land. Consistent with the observation over the ocean, the strength of the inflow is proportional to the intensity of typhoon, and the inflow depth is proportional to the distance to the typhoon center. The standard deviation errors of the wind profiles in the typhoon boundary increase toward typhoon center, indicating the distribution of the wind profiles becomes wider toward the typhoon center. Compared with the tangential wind and the total wind speed, the distribution of the inflow is the widest. Furthermore, the boundary layer wind profiles show the obvious asymmetric structures relative to the typhoon motion direction with the inflow layer being higher in the front quadrants than the rear quadrants; the most distinct jet feature exists in the left rear quadrant, while the right rear quadrant does not possess clear jet feature.