jin

plural jins

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of jinn.

   Each grasped a musket in one hand and searched for his hijab with the other, for each carried several of these amulets, and that in demand this night was the one written against the jin, for certainly none but a jin could have done this thing.

   1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, page 281

plural jins

1. A portion of dead wood on a branch or at the top of the trunk of a bonsai tree, whether formed naturally or deliberately to suggest age and hardship.

alternative Chin · alternative Kin

1. A river (晉水) in Shanxi Province, China, emptying into the Fen River.
2. historicalA marchland (c. 1046–677 BC) and duchy (677–376 BC) of the Zhou Kingdom around the river.
3. A Chinese surname.
4. historicalA titular principality of the Wei Empire (est. AD 264) and other later Chinese states.

   Synonyms: Sima Jin, Liang Jin

5. historicalAn empire in China (AD 265–420) established by Sima Yan's overthrow of the Wei and replaced by barbarian conquerors in the north and Liu Yu's Song Empire in the south.
6. historicalSynonym of Sima: the dynasty which ruled this empire.

   Synonyms: Sima

7. historicalchiefly Chinese contextsThe late 3rd to early 5th century, the era during which the Sima clan were the legitimate emperors of China.
8. A river (Jin River, 晉江／晋江 (Jìnjiāng)) in Quanzhou Municipality, Fujian, China, emptying into the Taiwan Strait.

   Located on the Jin River, Quanzhou was China’s principal port during the Song and Yuan dynasties.

   2016, “Fujian”, in China, DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 297, column 1

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   Between 1946 and 1948 in the ruins of the foundations of Quanzhou’s South Gate Tower and southern wall we excavated more that twenty large white gravestones, inscribed in Arabic on both sides. They obviously had been taken from a demolished Islamic mosque. The area overlooked in the Jin River and was known as South Quanzhou, or the “Foreign District.” It was here that merchants from overseas and their families had lived during Song and Yuan.

   1984, Zhuang Weiji, quotee, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 147

   Wang Feng and I made our way to the world’s former greatest harbour. It is to the west of the city on the Jin River, and far enough inland from Quanzhou Bay to be reasonably safe from typhoons.

   2010, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, “China: To the Mosque of the Phoenix”, in Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra, John Murray, published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200

   He said that four years ago, the island began receiving water from the Jin River, in Quanzhou, China, and now 70-80% of Kinmen's water comes from China.

   2023 February 8, Kelvin Chen, “Swiss parliamentarian delegation visits Taiwan's Kinmen”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023, Politics

   Synonyms: Jinshui

9. historicalA prefecture of imperial China centered on Linfen, Shanxi.
10. historicalFormer name of Linfen as the seat of the prefecture.
11. historicalAn realm in early-10th century Shaanxi loyal to the Tang after their overthrow by the Later Liang.
12. historicalThe Later Jin, a short-lived empire in 10th-century Shaanxi; the 930s and '40s, the era of this empire.

    Synonyms: Fujianese river, prefecture & its seat

13. historicalSynonym of Shi: the dynasty which ruled this empire.

    Synonyms: Shi

14. human sciencesA Chinese dialect family (code cjy) spoken by about 45 million people in Shanxi and adjacent provinces.

    Synonyms: Jin Chinese, Jinese, Shanxinese, Shanxi dialect

alternative Chin · alternative Chin · alternative Kin

1. A Korean surname.

alternative Chin · alternative Kin

1. A Chinese surname, given 29th among the Hundred Family Surnames.
2. historicalA prefecture of imperial China centered on Ankang, Shaanxi.
3. historicalFormer name of Ankang as the seat of the prefecture.

   Synonyms: Jinzhou, Xicheng

4. historicalAn empire in northern China (AD 1115–1234) established by an invasion of Liao by the Wanyan Jurchens and overthrown by an invasion of the Mongols.
5. historicalSynonym of Wanyan: the dynasty which ruled this empire.

   Synonyms: Wanyan

6. historicaluncommonanthropologySynonym of Jurchen: the Tungusic people who ruled this empire.

   Synonyms: Jurchen

7. historicalchiefly Chinese contextsThe 12th to early 13th century, the era during which the Wanyan clan were the legitimate emperors of northern China.
8. historicalSynonym of Qing: the Chinese empire, dynasty, and era, (particularly) during the years 1616 to 1636, prior to the formal declaration of the Qing.

   Synonyms: Qing, Jurchen, Jurchen Jin, Jinn

alternative Chin · alternative Kin

1. A river (錦江) in Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces in China, emptying into the Bei or North River.
2. A river (錦江) in Sichuan Province, China, emptying into the Min River.
3. A river (錦江 (贛江支流)) in Jiangxi Province, China, emptying into the Gan River.
4. historicalA prefecture of imperial China centered on Luyang, Hunan.
5. historicalFormer name of Luyang as the seat of the prefecture.

alternative Chin · alternative Kin

1. A Chinese surname.
2. A river (靳江) in Hunan Province, China, emptying into the Xiang River.

   Synonyms: Jinjiang

alternative Chin · alternative Kin

1. historicalAn ancient state or tribal confederation in northern Korea.
2. historicalSynonym of Balhae, a northern Korean state, (particularly) between its AD 698 founding and 712 renaming.

   Synonyms: Balhae

3. A Korean surname.

alternative Chin · alternative Kin

1. A Japanese male given name.