The landfalling tropical cyclone precipitation(TCP) over East China was partitioned from the daily rainfall observations at 129 stations during 1954-2004 by the Objective Synoptic Analysis Technique and its advanced scheme. The climate characteristics of TCP were analyzed with variance analysis, trend coefficient and linear regression technique, followed by comparison with those of annal total rainfall in East China. Results show that the spatial distribution of TC rainfall is not uniform in East China with the highest rainfall occurring in southeast Fujian Province, and the decreasing feature of TCP from southeast to northwest is related with the terrain and other factors. The interannual oscillation of TCP volume is evident with marked 9-year and 15-year periods, and the inter-decadal variability of TCP is that the maximum occurred in the 1950s, and then decreased before the 1970s, which is 10 years earlier than the time in North China. The climate characteristic of total precipitation is greatly different from that of TCP. Thus it makes sense to extract TCP from total precipitation before making long-range precipitation prediction.