Jin may refer to:

In Chinese history:

• Jin (廑), a ruler of the Xia dynasty (2033 BC–1562 BC)
• Jin (state) (746 BC-403 BC) (晉), a state in northern China during the Spring and Autumn Period
• Jin Dynasty, used to refer to a number of Chinese dynastic kingdoms:
  • Jìn Dynasty (265-420) (晉) of southeastern China
  • Later Jin Dynasty (Five Dynasties) (936-947) was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.
  • Jin Dynasty, 1115–1234 (Jinn) (金), a Jurchen kingdom in northern China
  • Later Jin Dynasty, (Later Jinn Dynasty), a state founded in Manchuria in 1616 by the Jurchen Nurhaci, later renamed Qing_Dynasty

In other Chinese contexts: Categories: Ancient Chinese states | China-related stubs ... Jin Dynasty may refer to a number of ruling families in China, or the periods of their rule: Jìn Dynasty (265-420) (晉) of southeastern China Later Jin Dynasty (Five Dynasties) (936-947) was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. ... The Jìn Dynasty (Simplified Chinese: 晋朝; Pinyin: jìn cháo; 265-420), one of the Six Dynasties, followed the Three Kingdoms period and preceded the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. ... The Later Jin (936-947) was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. ... The Jīn Dynasty (Jurchen: Anchu; Chinese: 金朝; Pinyin: ; 1115-1234), also known as the Jurchen dynasty, was founded by the Wanyan (完顏 Wányán) clan of the Jurchen, the ancestors of the Manchus who established the Qing Dynasty some 500 years later. ...

• Jìn (晋), an abbreviation for Shanxi province in the People's Republic of China
• Jin (金, 靳, 晉), Mandarin transliteration of several Chinese family names
• (斤) the traditional Chinese unit of weight, defined in the twentieth century as half of a kilogram
• Jin (晋语) or Jin-yu, a subdivision of spoken Chinese, spoken over most of Shanxi province of China, as well as adjourning areas in Hebei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces.

In Korean history: Shanxi (Chinese: 山西; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Shansi) is a province in the northern part of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Jin (金 pinyin: jīn) is an uncommon Chinese family name. ... In measurement, Chinese units (市制 Pinyin: Shìzhì, city standard) are the units used in Imperial China, and are still used. ... Jin (simplified: 晋语; traditional: 晉語; pinyin: jìnyǔ), or Jin-yu, is a subdivision of spoken Chinese. ...

• Jin state (辰國), a state in southern Korea during 3rd and 2nd centuries BC
• Jin state (698-926) (振國) was the initial name of Balhae, a kingdom in northern Korea and Manchuria that succeeded Goguryeo

In arts and entertainment: Jin was an early Iron Age state which occupied some portion of the southern Korean peninsula during the 2nd and 3rd centuries BCE, bordering the Korean kingdom Gojoseon to the north. ... Alternate meaning: Bohai Sea Balhae (Korean) or Bohai (Chinese) was a kingdom in northeast Asia from AD 698 to 926, occupying parts of Manchuria, northern Korea, and Russian Far East. ...

• Jin, a character in Samurai Champloo, a television anime series
• Jin Au-Yeung, Chinese American rapper
• Jin, 1987 Chinese film, English title The Well
• Jin-Soo Kwon, a character in the television series Lost.
• Jin Kazama, a character in Namco's fighting game series, Tekken
• Jin Saotome, a Capcom character
• Blade: Jin, a katana weapon skill in the game, FINAL FANTASY XI online, which is highly overrated and very inconsistant, but easily better than Blade: Ku or Blade: Ten.

Miscellaneous: Samurai Champloo (サムライチャンプルー) is an anime series consisting of twenty-six 24-minute episodes that began broadcasting on Fuji TV in Japan on May 19, 2004. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Jin-Soo Kwon is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Daniel Dae Kim. ... Jin Kazama (Shares the first given Kanji as his Great-Grandfather, Jinpachi Mishima) is a character in the Tekken fighting game series. ... Jin in Cyberbots. ... Capcom (カプコン in Japanese) TYO: 9697 is a leading Japanese developer and publisher of computer and video games. ...

• For the mythological creature jinn, see genie.

• Jin can be a Japanese surname.