Chinese surnames

阴

yīn · Yin

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 282
Ancestral seat (junwang)
始兴
Wikidata
Q13367482

In other languages

  • German Yin
  • English Yin
  • Spanish Yin
  • French Yin
  • Japanese 陰
  • Korean 인
  • Traditional Chinese 陰

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Yin Lihua5 – 64

    Han dynasty empress

  • Empress Yin100 – 102

    Chinese Han Dynasty empress (80-103 CE)

  • Yin Fatang1922 – 2025

    Chinese politician (1922-2025)

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).