"焚" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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Strokes 12
Structure
Decomp. 木木火
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Prononciation
Mandarin fén
Entry Methods
Pinyin fen2
Kanji /
Cangjie
DDF
木木火
Sijiao 4480.9
Wubi SSOU
CNS 11643 1-604F
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+711A
GB2312 B7D9
BIG5 B549
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 fén to burn
Results beginning with 焚
 fén shāo to burn / to set on fire
 fén xiāng to burn incense
 fén huǐ to burn down / to destroy with fire
 fén huà to cremate
 fén shī to cremate
 fén shū to burn the books (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC)
 fén fēng foehn wind (loanword)
  wife-burning
 fén yàn to destroy one's ink-slab / to write no more because others write so much better (idiom)
  burning ground
  burning tank
 fén shī lú crematorium / crematory oven
 fén gāo jì guǐ to burn the midnight oil (idiom) / to work continuously night and day
 fén qín zhǔ hè lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
 fén shū kēng rú to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
  afterburning
 fén xiāng jìng shén to burn incense in prayer to a God
Approximate Results for 焚
 zì fén self-immolation
 xīn jí rú fén to burn with impatience / torn with anxiety
 yù shí jù fén to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
 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
 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
 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
 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
 lù tiān fén shāo open burning
 yù huǒ fén shēn burning with desire
  car bottom furnace incineration
  plasma arc incineration
  rotary kiln incineration
  directly heated retort incineration
  medical waste incineration
  hazardous waste incineration
  mass-burn waste-to-energy plant
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