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Kin means your relatives — the people related to you by blood or marriage, like family. It's an old, slightly formal or literary word; in everyday speech people usually just say "family" or "relatives" instead. You'll mostly meet "kin" in set phrases like "next of kin," which is the official term (used on hospital or legal forms) for your closest living relative.
親屬、家人（較正式或書面用語）
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
kinnoun詞源 1/kɪn/
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Race; family; breed; kind.
- the starfish and its kin the sea urchin
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Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
- Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.
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One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
- Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
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Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
- Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
kinadj詞源 1/kɪn/
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Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)
- It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
- ... and our feeling together had made us forget what-ever there'd been between us to forget about. And I ain't ever in my life felt so kin to folks. I felt kinner than I knew I was. That night, tired as I was, I walked[…]
kinverb詞源 3/kɪn/
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slanglifestyleTo identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
kinnoun詞源 3/kɪn/
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slanglifestyleA fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
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slanglifestyleSomeone who identifies as a certain fictional character.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。