Definition of "Jin"

Jin¹

/d͡ʒɪn/

proper noun
1. A river (晉水) in Shanxi Province, China, emptying into the Fen River.
2. (historical) A marchland (c. 1046–677 BC) and duchy (677–376 BC) of the Zhou Kingdom around the river.
3. A Chinese surname.
4. (historical) A titular principality of the Wei Empire (est. AD 264) and other later Chinese states.
5. (historical) An 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. (historical) Synonym of Sima: the dynasty which ruled this empire.
7. (historical, chiefly Chinese contexts) The 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.
  Quotations
  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, 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, page 200
  Located on the Jin River, Quanzhou was China’s principal port during the Song and Yuan dynasties.
  2016, “Fujian”, in China‎, DK, page 297, column 1
  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 March 2023, Politics‎
9. (historical) A prefecture of imperial China centered on Linfen, Shanxi.
10. (historical) Former name of Linfen as the seat of the prefecture.
11. (historical) An realm in early-10th century Shaanxi loyal to the Tang after their overthrow by the Later Liang.
12. (historical) The Later Jin, a short-lived empire in 10th-century Shaanxi; the 930s and '40s, the era of this empire.
13. (historical) Synonym of Shi: the dynasty which ruled this empire.
14. (linguistics) A Chinese dialect family (code cjy) spoken by about 45 million people in Shanxi and adjacent provinces.

Jin²

proper noun
1. A Korean surname.

Jin³

proper noun
1. A Chinese surname, given 29th among the Hundred Family Surnames.
2. (historical) A prefecture of imperial China centered on Ankang, Shaanxi.
3. (historical) Former name of Ankang as the seat of the prefecture.
4. (historical) An 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. (historical) Synonym of Wanyan: the dynasty which ruled this empire.
6. (historical, ethnography, uncommon) Synonym of Jurchen: the Tungusic people who ruled this empire.
7. (historical, chiefly Chinese contexts) The 12th to early 13th century, the era during which the Wanyan clan were the legitimate emperors of northern China.
8. (historical) Synonym of Qing: the Chinese empire, dynasty, and era, (particularly) during the years 1616 to 1636, prior to the formal declaration of the Qing.

Jin⁴

proper noun
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. (historical) A prefecture of imperial China centered on Luyang, Hunan.
4. (historical) Former name of Luyang as the seat of the prefecture.

Jin⁵

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

Jin⁶

proper noun
1. (historical) An ancient state or tribal confederation in northern Korea.
2. (historical) Synonym of Balhae, a northern Korean state, (particularly) between its AD 698 founding and 712 renaming.
3. A Korean surname.

Jin⁷

proper noun
1. A Japanese male given name.