Jin

Jin is an atonal pinyin romanization of various Chinese names and words. These have also been romanized as Kin and Chin in the past. "Jin" also occurs in Japanese and Korean.
It may refer to:

China

• Jin (Chinese state) (晉國), Zhou dynasty
• Jin dynasty (265–420) (晉朝), also known as Liang Jin and Sima Jin
  • Western Jin (西晉; 265–316)
  • Eastern Jin (東晉; 317–420)
• Jin (Later Tang precursor) (晉國; 907–923), Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
• Later Jin (Five Dynasties) (後晉; 936–947), Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
• Jin dynasty (1115–1234) (金朝; 1115–1234), also known as the Jurchen Jin
• Later Jin (17th century) (後金; 1616–1636), precursor of the Qing dynasty

Korea

• Jin (Korean state) (辰國), precursor of the Jinhan Confederation
• Balhae (698–713), originally known as Jin (震)

• Jin Prefecture (Shanxi) (晉州), a former Chinese prefecture centered on present-day Linfen, Shanxi
• Jin Prefecture (Shaanxi) (金州), a former Chinese prefecture centered on present-day Ankang, Shaanxi
• Jin Prefecture (Hunan) (锦州), a former Chinese prefecture centered on Luyang in present-day Hunan
• Shanxi, official abbreviation Jin (晋)
• Tianjin, official abbreviation Jin (津)

• Jin River (晋水), a tributary of the Fen River in Shanxi also known as the Jinshui
• Jin River, an alternative name for the Golden Water River (金水河, Jīnshuǐ Hé) in Beijing
• Jin River (锦江, Jǐn Jiāng), a tributary of the Bei River in Guangdong
• Jin River (锦江, Jǐn Jiāng), a tributary of the Min River in Sichuan
• Jin River (晋江, Jìn Jiāng), a river in Quanzhou Municipality, Fujian
• Jin River (靳江, Jìn Jiāng), a tributary of the Xiang River in Hunan

• Jin (manga), a Japanese manga series by Motoka Murakami
  • Jin (TV series), a Japanese television adaptation of the manga
• Jin Records, a Louisiana-based swamp pop record label
• "Jin, the Wind Master", an episode of Yu Yu Hakusho

People

• Jin (Chinese surname), various Chinese surnames
• Jin (Korean surname), various Korean surnames
• Jin Akanishi (born 1984), Japanese musician
• JIN, the stage name of Park Myung-eun (born 1996), a South Korean singer with the girl group Lovelyz
• Jin, the stage name of Kim Seok-Jin (김석진), a South Korean singer with the Bangtan Boys
• MC Jin (born 1982), a Chinese-American entertainer

Fictional characters

• Jin Kazama, the protagonist of the Tekken video games
• Jin-Soo Kwon, a character in Lost
• Jin, a character in the O-Parts Hunter series
• Jin, a character in Samurai Champloo media
• Jin, a character in YuYu Hakusho
• Jin Kariya, a character in the anime Bleach
• Jin Kirigiri, a character in Danganronpa
• Jin Kisaragi, a character in BlazBlue video games
• Jin Uzuki, a character in Xenosaga

• JIN, the code for Jinja Airport in Uganda
• Jin Air, a South Korean airline
• Jin language
• Jīn (斤), the Chinese name for the catty, a traditional East Asian unit of weight
• Jin, a deadwood bonsai technique
• In Kurdish, jin means woman, and comes from the root jiyan, meaning life.