Shin Explained

Shin may refer to:

Biology

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

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

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
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

Shin (band) (Chinese: 信樂團|links=no)
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

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

Shin (letter), the twenty-first letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Hebrew and Arabic
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

See also