Yin may refer to:
*the dark force in the
yin and yang
Yin and yang ( and ) is a Chinese philosophy, Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces. In Chinese cosmology, the universe creates itself out of a primary chaos of material energy, organized into the c ...
from traditional Chinese philosophy and medicine
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Yīn (surname)
Yīn () is a Chinese surname. It is derived from the name of the capital of the Shang dynasty. A 2013 study found that it was the 126th most common surname, being shared by 1,470,000 people or 0.110% of the population, with Jiangsu being the provi ...
(), a Chinese surname
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Yǐn (surname) (), a Chinese surname
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Shang dynasty
The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and ...
, also known as the Yin dynasty
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Yinxu
Yinxu (modern ; ) is the site of one of the ancient and major historical capitals of China. It is the source of the archeological discovery of oracle bones and oracle bone script, which resulted in the identification of the earliest known Chine ...
or Yin, the Shang dynasty capital now in ruins
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Yin (Five Dynasties period), a short-lived kingdom during China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
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Yin Mountains, a mountain range in Inner Mongolia and Hebei province in China
*Yin (, ''yǐn''), an office of early China sometimes equivalent to prime minister and sometimes to governor
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Prime minister (Chu State), known in Chinese as Lingyin.
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