Yin
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Yin may refer to:
- the dark force in the yin and yang from traditional Chinese philosophy and medicine
- Yīn (surname) (殷), a Chinese surname
- Yǐn (surname) (尹), a different Chinese surname
- Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty
- Yinxu or Yin, the Shang dynasty capital now in ruins
- Yin (Five Dynasties period), a short-lived kingdom during China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
- Yin Mountains, a mountain range in Inner Mongolia and Hebei province in China
- Yin (尹, yǐn), an office of early China sometimes equivalent to prime minister and sometimes to governor
- Prime minister (Chu State), known in Chinese as Lingyin.