This study adopted the retrieval practice paradigm to test whether the structure of the Chinese big seven personality dimensions characterizes how culturally Chinese people perceive and categorize a person. The retrieval practice paradigm can be used to reveal the structure of conceptual representations by showing that retrieval practice of exemplars of a category induces forgetting of unpracticed exemplars as compared to unlearned stimuli. Experiment 1 followed the procedure used in Macrae and MacLeod’s (1999) study of person perception with a retrieval practice paradigm. Results confirmed that the retrieval-induced forgetting effect cannot be produced with personality adjectives that are randomly organized from the 7 dimensions. Experiment 2 used the same adjectives as in the first study, but had two retrieval practice phases. Results showed that once stable impressions were formed, a reliable retrieval-induced forgetting effect can be obtained. Homogeneous adjectives were drawn from 4 of the personality factors in Experiment 3. The retrieval-induced forgetting effect manifested after only one retrieval practice, suggesting that stable impressions can be established after one exposure. Results support the conclusion that the Chinese big seven model is the primary structure used by culturally Chinese people to organize their interpersonal information.