The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese晉/晋(Jìn), adopted as the name of a river in Shanxi in antiquity. As a Zhou state, from the renaming of the marchland Tang (唐) by its second marquis Ji Xie when he relocated to the Jin River c.1000BC. As a surname, principally from the Zhou state and its region in China. As an empire and dynastic name, from Sima Yan's status as prince of Jin under the preceding Wei Empire. As a river in Fujian, named for the empire, which settled its banks with colonizers from China's Central Plains. As a dialect, from 晉語/晋语 (Jìnyǔ), from the region of the former Zhou state.
Between 1946 and 1948 in the ruins of the foundations of Quanzhou’s South Gate Tower and southern wall we excavated more that twenty large white gravestones, inscribed in Arabic on both sides. They obviously had been taken from a demolished Islamic mosque. The area overlooked in the Jin River and was known as South Quanzhou, or the “Foreign District.” It was here that merchants from overseas and their families had lived during Song and Yuan.
Wang Feng and I made our way to the world’s former greatest harbour. It is to the west of the city on the Jin River, and far enough inland from Quanzhou Bay to be reasonably safe from typhoons.
Located on the Jin River, Quanzhou was China’s principal port during the Song and Yuan dynasties.
2023 February 8, Kelvin Chen, “Swiss parliamentarian delegation visits Taiwan's Kinmen”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 08 March 2023, Politics:
He said that four years ago, the island began receiving water from the Jin River, in Quanzhou, China, and now 70-80% of Kinmen's water comes from China.
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Jin.
From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of Mandarin金(Jīn, literally “gold, golden”). As a surname, legendarily derived from the descendants of Shaohao who took a golden phoenix as their tribal emblem. As an area and town in Shaanxi, named for the placer deposits of gold on the Yue River. As a Jurchen empire and dynastic name, a Chinese calque of Jurchen name of the Ashi River within modern Harbin, preserved in Chinese transcription as 按出虎(Ànchūhǔ) (Middle Chinese: ʔan-tsyhwit-xu). As a Manchu empire and dynastic name, an early continuation of the former Jurchen name prior to the 1636 proclamation of the Qing.
“Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 477: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,[…]Chin (Jin) 金”
From the revised romanization of Korean진(jin). As an ancient kingdom, originally from Chinese辰(chén, “5th earthly branch”), possibly used by the ancient state from its association with "east". As the medieval precursor of Balhae, originally Chinese震, possibly intended as a variant of the original state's name (Middle Chinese: dzyin) or to signify "thunderclap", "shock", "tremor", etc. As a surname, the modern Korean form of originally separate names derived from Chinese陳/陈(chén), 秦(Qín), 眞/真(zhēn), as well as 晉 above.