Abstract: The present research began with analysing of the concrete representa-tive forms for the whole perception of Chinese characters, 3 experimentswere carried out in order to explore the effect of character's whole perceptionon the perception of components. Taking the decomposing models as thevariable, Experiment 1 explored the influence of morphological wholeperception upon the identification of components, and we found that theperformance of the identifying components was affected by the lines ofthe perceptual decomposition. The authors suggested that this effect of thedecomposing models may be concerned with the position of component, and itsanalysis was confirmed in Experiment 2 .The mechanism of the effect of theposition has concern with the degree of closeness between the position andthe morphological whole perception. Taking the phonetic code as varia-ble, It was found in Experiment 3 that the performance of decomposing perc-eption for the consistent with the phone between the component and wholecharacter (i. e. pictophonetic character) had more obvious advantage thanthose for the non-consistent (i .e .unpictophonetic character). This meansthat the perceptual singleness of the phone for the whole character affectsthe component's perception. Finally, the present research also examined the effectiveness of themethod of component identification, and this method could be taken asone new experimental paradigm in the study of the whole-part rela-tionship in the perception.

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