Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 焚

to burn

to burn down
to destroy with fire

self-immolation

foehn wind (loanword)

to burn incense

to burn down
to destroy with fire

to cremate

to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)

to burn
to set on fire

to cremate

crematorium
crematory oven

féngāojìguǐ

to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day

fénxiāngjìngshén

to burn incense in prayer to a God

fénqínzhǔhè

lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes
fig. to waste valuable resources
to destroy wantonly beautiful things

wánhuǒzìfén

to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences
to get one's fingers burnt

jiùfényìxīn

add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse
to add fuel to the fire

to burn with impatience
torn with anxiety

zhīfénhuìtàn

lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress

lán'àitóngfén

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

zhīfénhuìtàn

lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress

to burn both jade and common stone
to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)

yùhuǒfénshēn

burning with desire

fénshūkēngrú

to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇 ( Qín Shǐhuáng))