| 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) |
| 欲火焚身 | yù huǒ fén shēn | burning with desire |
| 救焚益薪 | jiù fén yì xīn | add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse; to add fuel to the fire |
| 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 |
| 玉石俱焚 | yù shí jù fén | to burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) |
| 玩火自焚 | wán huǒ zì fén | to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences; to get one's fingers burnt |
| 自焚 | zì fén | self-immolation |
| 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-minded person in distress |
| 兰艾同焚 | lán ài tóng fén | lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common; the rain falls on the just and unjust alike |
