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All around the world, 申 (Shin , 申 , 신 ) is a common epicene given name. The forename 申 is characteristic of Brunei, where it is quite a common epicene name, Taiwan, where it is quite a rare gender-neutral name, and China, where it is quite a rare largely boy's, but seldom feminine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in China, Indonesia, and the United States. More prevalently, 申 is the last name as well as the forename.
申 is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Huang Xin , the Water Margin character; Yu Shen , the Jin Ping Mei character; Bao Xin , the fictional Han dynasty general, figure in Romance of the Three Kingdoms; Shin , the character in Naruto and Shin , the Fist of the North Star character, among other works.