焚 | fén | burn |
焚烧 | fén shāo | to burn; set on fire |
焚毁 | fén huǐ | to burn down; to destroy with fire; trad. also written 焚毀 |
焚书 | fén shū | to burn the books (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC) |
焚化 | fén huà | to cremate |
焚尸 | fén shī | to cremate |
焚尸炉 | fén shī lú | crematorium; crematory oven |
焚书坑儒 | fén shū kēng rú | to burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC) |
焚琴煮鹤 | fén qín zhǔ hè | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonly beautiful things |
焚砚 | fén yàn | to destroy one's ink-slab; to write no more because others write so much better (idiom) |
焚膏继晷 | fén gāo jì guǐ | to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day |
焚香 | fén xiāng | to burn incense |
焚香敬神 | fén xiāng jìng shén | to burn incense in prayer to a God |