Shin
Appearance
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Shin may refer to:
Biology
[edit]- The front part of the leg below the knee
- Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates
Names
[edit]- Shin (given name) (Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese given name
- Shin (Korean surname) (Hangul: 신, Hanja: 申, 辛, 愼), a Korean family name
Fictional characters
[edit]- Shin Akuma, a character in the Street Fighter series
- Shin Asuka (disambiguation), multiple
- Shin Godzilla, a fictional monster from a film of the same name
- Shin Hati, a fictional character in Star Wars
- Shin Malphur, a character in the video game Destiny 2: Forsaken
- Kamen Rider Shin, a character in the Kamen Rider series
- Seijuro Shin (進), a character in the manga and anime series Eyeshield 21
- A character in the manga Dorohedoro
- A character in the manga and anime Fist of the North Star
- Shin Tsukimi from the video game Your Turn to Die -Death Game by Majority-
Music
[edit]- Shin (band) (Chinese: 信樂團)
- Shin (singer) (蘇見信), a Taiwanese singer and former lead singer of the band Shin
- Shin, the drummer of the German visual kei group Cinema Bizarre
- The Shin, a Georgian fusion jazz band
- The Shins, an American indie band
- Shin (シン), a Japanese rock singer and former vocalist of Vivid
Places
[edit]- Shin, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran
- Shin, Swat, an administrative unit in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
- Shin, Syria, a village in Syria
- Loch Shin, a loch in the Scottish Highlands
- River Shin, a river in the Scottish Highlands
Other uses
[edit]- Shin (letter), the twenty-first letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Hebrew ש and Arabic ش
- Shin Buddhism, a widely practiced branch of Buddhism in Japan, named after its founder, Shinran
- Shin Corporation, one of the largest conglomerates in Thailand
- Shina language
- Shina people, an ethnic group who live in parts of Pakistan and northern India
- Shin (信), a principle of Nichiren Buddhism
- Shin Japan Heroes Universe, a Japanese crossover media project