The invention relates to a retransmission method used in characteristic wave beam shape sending multi-input multi-output communication system, which comprises: following steps: the receiver, based on the signal channel stat character, forms a character wave beam group with several character wave beams to feedback them to the sender; the sender, based on feedback character wave beam group, selects character wave beam via following methods as sending wave beam that when sending non-retransmission data, using best character wave beam as fixed sending wave beam; when sending retransmission data, in different transmission cycles, selecting the character wave beam different from the best one as the sending wave beam; and the sender, based on selected sending wave beam, forms relative data into wave beam to be sent by the antenna.