Yanamino焚
to burn
- Strokes
- 12
- Pinyin
- fén
Parts
Words with 焚
- 焚化fén huà · fenhuato cremate
- 焚尸fén shī · fenshito cremate
- 焚毁fén huǐ · fenhuito burn down; to destroy with fire
- 焚烧fén shāo · fenshaoto burn; to set on fire
- 焚砚fén yàn · fenyanto destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)
- 焚风fén fēng · fenfengfoehn wind (loanword)
- 焚香fén xiāng · fenxiangto burn incense
- 自焚zì fén · zifento set oneself on fire; to self-immolate
- 焚尸炉fén shī lú · fenshilucrematorium; crematory oven
- 欲火焚身yù huǒ fén shēn · yuhuofenshenburning with desire
- 救焚益薪jiù fén yì xīn · jiufenyixinadd firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse; to add fuel to the fire
- 焚书坑儒fén shū kēng rú · fenshukengruto burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
- 焚琴煮鹤fén qín zhǔ hè · fenqinzhuhelit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonly beautiful things
- 焚膏继晷fén gāo jì guǐ · fengaojiguito burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
- 焚香敬神fén xiāng jìng shén · fenxiangjingshento burn incense in prayer to a God
- 玉石俱焚yù shí jù fén · yushijufento burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
- 玩火自焚wán huǒ zì fén · wanhuozifento play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences; to get one's fingers burnt
- 芝焚蕙叹zhī fén huì tàn · zhifenhuitanlit. 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 · lanaitongfenlit. 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