| 灰烬 | huī jìn | ashes |   |
| 烬 |  jìn | ashes / embers | |
| 骨灰 | gǔ huī | bone ash / cremation ashes / cremains | |
| 舍利 | shè lì | ashes after cremation / Buddhist relics (Sanskirt: sarira) | |
| 死灰复燃 | sǐ huī fù rán | lit. ashes burn once more (idiom) / fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one | |
| 舍利子 | shè lì zi | ashes after cremation / Buddhist relics (Sanskirt: sarira) | |
| 骨灰盒 | gǔ huī hé | box for bone ashes / funerary casket | |
| 炉渣 | lú zhā | furnace slag / ashes from a stove | |
| 舍利塔 | shè lì tǎ | stupa / tower venerating the ashes of the Buddha | |
| 蓬 | péng | fleabane (family Asteraceae) / disheveled / classifier for luxuriant plants, smoke, ashes, campfires: clump, puff | |
| 磕 | kē | to tap / to knock (against sth hard) / to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc) | |
| 煨 | wēi | to simmer / to roast in ashes | |
| 灰飞烟灭 | huī fēi yān miè | lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke | |
| 佛舍利 | Fó shè lì | ashes of cremated Buddha | |
| 骨烬 | gǔ jìn | bones and ashes / remains (after Buddhist cremation) | |
| 浴火重生 | yù huǒ chóng shēng | to rise from the ashes (idiom) / to thrive again after surviving an ordeal | |
