Shin may refer to:

Biology

* The front part of the

human leg The human leg, in the general word sense, is the entire lower limb (anatomy), limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh or sometimes even the hip or Gluteal muscles, gluteal region. However, the definition in human anatomy refers only to ...

below the knee * Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates

Names

Shin (given name) is a common Japanese given name which is mostly used for males. Possible writings Shin can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *真, "true" *伸, "extend" *新, "new" *心, "heart" *信, "belief" *進, "progress" *慎, "h ...

(Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese given name *

Shin (Korean surname) Sin or Shin is a Korean family name. It is cognate to the Chinese family names Shēn (申) and Xin (辛). According to the 2000 census in South Korea, there were 911,556 people with the surname ''Sin''. Clans There are three Chinese character ...

(Hangul: 신, Hanja: 申, 辛, 愼), a Korean family name * Shin (Chinese: 新, which means "new"), spelled in Pinyin as Xin

Fictional characters

Shin Akuma Akuma (悪魔, Japanese for "Devil", "Demon"), known in Japan as , is a fictional character and secondary antagonist of the ''Street Fighter'' series of fighting games by Capcom. Akuma made his debut in ''Super Street Fighter II Turbo'' as a sec ...

, a character in the Street Fighter series * Shin Asuka (disambiguation), multiple * Shin Malphur, a character in the video game '' Destiny 2: Forsaken'' *

Kamen Rider Shin is a 1992 Japanese tokusatsu biopunk- horror V-Cinema film directed by Makoto Tsuji. It is a reimagining of the Kamen Rider Series and is also the first standalone film in the franchise. Toei has marketed the film to English speaking markets as ...

, a character in the Kamen Rider series *

Seijuro Shin The ''Eyeshield 21'' anime and manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Riichiro Inagaki and Yusuke Murata. The series takes place in Tokyo, Japan, where the members of Deimon Devil Bats have the ambition to compete at t ...

(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''

Music

* Shin (band) ( zh, 信樂團, links=no) *

Shin (singer) Shin (; born Su Chien-hsin on 14 May 1971) is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter and actor. He is known as the former lead singer of the rock band Shin and a Golden Melody Awards nominee for Best Mandarin Male Singer. Shin had been singing in pu ...

(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 The Shin ( ka, შინ) is a Georgian fusion jazz band formed in Germany in 1998. The music of The Shin smoothly combines Georgian folk melodies with jazz, famous native polyphonic singing with scat, and tunes of the near Orient and flamenco with ...

, a Georgian fusion jazz band * The Shins, an American indie band * Shin (シン), a Japanese rock singer and former vocalist of

Vivid Vivid may refer to: Music * Vivid (band), a Japanese rock band * "Vivid" (song), by Electronic, 1999 *"ViViD", a 2016 song by Loona from '' HeeJin'' Albums * ''Vivid'' (Vivian Green album), 2015 * ''Vivid'' (Crystal Kay album), 2012 * ''Vivi ...

Places

Shin, Iran Shin ( fa, شين, also Romanized as Shīn; also known as Sen) is a village in Aq Bolagh Rural District, Sojas Rud District, Khodabandeh County, Zanjan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called ...

, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran *

Shin, Swat Shin is an administrative unit, known as a Union council, of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. See also * Swat District Swat District (, ps, سوات ولسوالۍ, ) is a district in the Malakand Division ...

, an administrative unit in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan *

Shin, Syria Shin ( ar, شين ''Shîn'') is a town in northwestern Syria administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located west of Homs. Nearby localities include Rabah to the north, al-Mahfurah to the northeast, Tarin to the east, Suwayri to the southe ...

, a village in Syria * Loch Shin, a loch in the Scottish Highlands * River Shin, a river in the Scottish Highlands

Other uses

Shin (letter) Shin (also spelled Šin (') or Sheen) is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin , Hebrew Shin , Aramaic Shin , Syriac Shin ܫ, and Arabic Shin (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound value is a voice ...

, 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 Intouch Holdings PCL ( th, บริษัท อินทัช โฮลดิ้งส์ จำกัด (มหาชน); formerly Shin Corporation) is a Thai holding company which focuses on telecommunication industry. It is the parent ...

, one of the largest conglomerates in Thailand *

Shina language Shina ( ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Shina people. In Pakistan, Shina is the major language in Gilgit-Baltistan spoken by an estimated 1,146,000 people living mainly in Gilgit-Baltistan and Kohistan.{{Cite book , last1=Saxena , f ...

* Shina people, an ethnic group who live in parts of Pakistan and northern India * Shin (信), a principle of

Nichiren Buddhism Nichiren Buddhism ( ja, 日蓮仏教), also known as Hokkeshū ( ja, 法華宗, meaning ''Lotus Sect'') is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren (1222–1282) and is one of ...