Zhin is a male Zabrak Jedi Master, and Jedi instructor serving the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic during the Cold War with the resurgent Sith Empire. Zhin had brown skin, green eyes as well as black hair. He carried a single lightsaber that was usually hooked to the belt of his dark brown Jedi robes. Near the end of the Cold War, Zhin was stationed on the planet Taris, where he lived in Olaris, the headquarters of the Republic's resettlement project on the world.