焚
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to burn
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How 焚 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Setting fire 火 to a forest 林
How to remember it
burn · Heisig RSH #1575
林 woods + 火 fire
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 焚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 心急如焚 | xīn jí rú fén | (idiom) burning with anxiety; extremely anxious or impatient |
| 玩火自焚 | wán huǒ zì fén | to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequence… |
| 欲火焚身 | yù huǒ fén shēn | burning with desire |
| 兰艾同焚 | lán ài tóng fén | lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscrimin… |
| 焚香敬神 | fén xiāng jìng shén | to burn incense in prayer to a God |
| 玉石俱焚 | yù shí jù fén | to burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) |
| 自焚 | zì fén | to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate |
| 焚化 | fén huà | to cremate |
| 焚风 | fén fēng | foehn wind (loanword) |
| 焚香 | fén xiāng | to burn incense |
| 焚书坑儒 | fén shū kēng rú | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly comm… |
| 焚烧 | fén shāo | to burn; to set on fire |
| 焚尸炉 | fén shī lú | crematorium; crematory oven |
| 焚琴煮鹤 | fén qín zhǔ hè | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonl… |
| 焚尸 | fén shī | to cremate |
| 焚毁 | fén huǐ | to burn down; to destroy with fire |
| 焚毁 | fén huǐ | to burn down; to destroy with fire |
| 焚砚 | fén yàn | to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better) |
| 焚膏继晷 | fén gāo jì guǐ | to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day |
| 芝焚蕙叹 | zhī fén huì tàn | lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like… |