Kin Explained

Kin usually refers to kinship and family.

Kin or KIN may also refer to:

Places

Kin empires and dynasties of China, now romanized as Jin
Kin, Okinawa, a town in Okinawa, Japan
Kin, Pakistan, a village along the Indus in Pakistan
Kin, Ye, a village in Ye Township, Myanmar
Kin, Mogok, a village in Mogok Township, Myanmar

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Film

Kin, a 2000 South African-British film by Elaine Proctor
Kin (film), a 2018 American science fiction film
Kin, upcoming Australian film written by Thomas Atkin, winner of the 2021 John Hinde Award for Excellence in Science-Fiction Writing

Television

"Kin" (Justified), a 2013 episode
"Kin" (The Last of Us), a 2023 episode
Kin (Irish TV series), Dublin crime drama broadcast from 2021
Kin (Singaporean TV series), a 2018 Singaporean TV drama series

Other arts, entertainment, and media

The Kin, a group of women in the novel series The Wheel of Time
Kin (comics), a 2000 comic-book limited series by Gary Frank
"Kin" (short story), a 2006 short story by Bruce McAllister

Organizations

Kin Canada, a Canadian non-profit service organization
Kids In Need Foundation or KIN

Transportation

Kingston Railroad Station (Rhode Island)'s Amtrak station code, KIN
Norman Manley International Airport's IATA Code, KIN

Other uses

KIN (gene), a gene for a DNA/RNA binding protein
Kin (mass), a Japanese unit of mass
Kin, a cryptocurrency token by Kik Interactive
Kinyarwanda language's ISO 639 code, KIN
Kin or rin, a Japanese standing bell
K'in, a day in the Maya Calendar
Microsoft Kin, a family of social networking phones developed by Microsoft

See also

Jin (disambiguation), formerly romanized as kin in Chinese contexts
Ken (disambiguation)
Kin selection, an evolutionary strategy that favors the reproductive success of an organism's relatives
Otherkin, people who identify as not entirely human
Kinism, a white supremacist religious movement
Kihn, surname
Kinh, the majority ethnic group of Vietnam