Chinese Contexts
- Jin Chinese (晋语), Jin-yu spoken dialect
- Jin (surname) (金, 晉, 靳), Chinese surname
- Catty (斤), a unit of weight in China
- Shanxi, abbreviated as Jìn (晋), a province of China
- Ancient Chinese history:
- Jin of Xia (廑, 1810–1789 BCE), 13th ruler of the Xia Dynasty
- Jin (Chinese state) (晉, 11th century BCE–376 BCE), a state of the Zhou Dynasty in northern China
- Jin Dynasty (265–420) (晋), Chinese dynasty
- Jin (Five Dynasties) (晋, 907–923), predecessor to Later Tang Dynasty
- Later Jin Dynasty (晋, 936–947), Chinese dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
- Jin Dynasty (1115–1234), (金), a Jurchen ruling dynasty (see below for other Jin Dynasties)
- Jurchen people
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