Chinese surnames

靳

jìn · Jin

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 211
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河西
Wikidata
Q15930682

In other languages

  • German Jin
  • English Jin
  • Spanish Jin
  • French Jin
  • Korean 진

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Jin Yunpeng1877 – 1951

    Chinese general (1877-1951)

  • Jin Xi250 BCE – 183 BCE
  • Jin Xi1919 – 1997

    Chinese cinema director and puppeteer

  • Jin Yun'e1881 – 1935
  • Jin Fu1633 – 1692

    Viceroy of Rivers and Waterways under the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing, b. 1633, d. 1692

Find printed genealogies

The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).