Shin may refer to:

Biology

* The front part of the

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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 '' Destiny 2: Forsaken'' * 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-'' * Shin Chan from the Japanese TV Series by the same name

Music

* Shin (band) ( zh, 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) Shin (also spelled Šin (') or Sheen) is the twenty-first and penultimate letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ''šīn'' 𐤔, Hebrew ''šīn'' , Aramaic ''šīn'' 𐡔, Syriac ''šīn'' ܫ, and Arabic ''sīn'' . The Phoenician ...

, 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 ( , ) is a Dardic languages, Dardic language of Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language family spoken by the Shina people. In Pakistan, Shina is the major language in Gilgit-Baltistan spoken by an estimated 1,146,000 people living mainl ...