In this article, milled wood lignin (MWL) was isolated and purified from retted kenaf fiber, the lignin obtained was characterized by elemental analysis, FTIR, 1 H-NMR, and 13 C-NMR spectroscopy. The C 9 formula is calculated for kenaf fiber MWL as C 9 H 9.32 O 3.69 (OCH 3 ) 1.30 . The spectra of FTIR, 1 H-NMR, and 13 C-NMR show the kenaf fiber lignin to be of the G/S type with high proportion of syringyl (S) unit. The numbers of phenolic and aliphatic hydroxyl groups in the kenaf fiber MWL are estimated to be 0.14 and 1.31, respectively, per C 9 unit. The OH aliph is 90.3% in total numbers of hydroxyl groups of kenaf fiber MWL, and the OH ph is 9.7%. It is evident that the b-O-4 structures are mainly linkage in the MWL of kenaf fiber, which contain more erythro stereochemistry type in b-O-4 units than thero stereochemistry type. In general, the characteristics of lignin of kenaf fiber are similar to that of hardwood.