"Burning" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 火热 | huǒ rè | fiery / burning / fervent / ardent / passionate |   |
| 炙热 | zhì rè | extremely hot (weather) / blazing (sun) / (fig.) burning (enthusiasm) | |
| 烧焦 | shāo jiāo | to burn / to scorch / burned / burning / scorched / charred | |
| 灼 |  zhuó | luminous / burning / to burn / to cauterize | |
| 香烟 | xiāng yān | cigarette / smoke from burning incense / CL:支[zhi1],條|条[tiao2] | |
| 火烧 | huǒ shāo | to set fire to / to burn down / burning hot / baked cake | |
| 熄灭 | xī miè | to stop burning / to go out (of fire) / to die out / extinguished | |
| 灼热 | zhuó rè | burning hot / scorching / worried | |
| 香火 | xiāng huǒ | incense burning in front of a temple / burning joss sticks | |
| 发烫 | fā tàng | burning hot | |
| 香炉 | xiāng lú | a censer (for burning incense) / incense burner / thurible | |
| 烧结 | shāo jié | to sinter / to agglomerate ore by burning | |
| 炽烈 | chì liè | burning fiercely / flaming / blazing | |
| 趁火打劫 | chèn huǒ dǎ jié | to loot a burning house / to profit from sb's misfortune (idiom) | |
| 杯水车薪 | bēi shuǐ chē xīn | lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom) / fig. an utterly inadequate measure | |
| 灼痛 | zhuó tòng | burn (i.e. wound) / burning pain | |
| 火炭 | huǒ tàn | live coal / ember / burning coals | |
| 长明灯 | cháng míng dēng | altar lamp burning day and night | |
| 烧荒 | shāo huāng | to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture) | |
| 熄 | xī | to extinguish / to put out (fire) / to quench / to stop burning / to go out (of fire, lamp etc) / to come to an end / to wither away / to die out / Taiwan pr. [xi2] | |
| 隔岸观火 | gé àn guān huǒ | to watch the fires burning across the river / to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom) | |
| 哀兵必胜 | āi bīng bì shèng | an army burning with righteous indignation is bound to win (idiom) | |
| 焌 | qū | to extinguish a burning object / to singe sth with a smoldering object (e.g. burn a hole in one's trousers with a cigarette) / to stir-fry / to pour a mixture of hot oil and flavorings over food | |
| 熰 | ǒu | copious smoke produced by smoldering firewood / half alight / to use the smoke of burning wormwood etc to repel insects | |
| 乐经 | Yuè jīng | Book of Music, said to be one of the Six Classics lost after Qin's burning of the books in 212 BC, but may simply refer to Book of Songs 詩經|诗经 | |
| 火刑 | huǒ xíng | execution by fire / burning at the stake | |
| 火湖 | huǒ hú | burning lake / lake of burning sulfur / inferno (in Christian mythology) | |
| 煮豆燃萁 | zhǔ dòu rán qí | burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom) / to cause internecine strife | |
| 燃煤锅炉 | rán méi guō lú | coal burning boiler | |
| 烧灼感 | shāo zhuó gǎn | burning pain | |
| 烧灼疼 | shāo zhuó téng | burning pain | |
| 秦火 | Qín huǒ | the Qin burning of the books in 212 BC | |
| 聚萤映雪 | jù yíng yìng xuě | lit. to collect fireflies and study by their light (idiom) / fig. ambitious student from impoverished background / burning the midnight oil | |
| 隐燃 | yǐn rán | burning with no flame / fire beneath the surface / hidden combustion | |
| 计划烧除法 | controlled burning | | |
| 露天焚烧 | lù tiān fén shāo | open burning | |
| 露天爆燃 | lù tiān bào rán | Open Burning and Open Detonation | |
| 生物质燃烧 | shēng wù zhì rán shāo | biomass burning | |
| 焚烧场 | burning ground | | |
| 焚烧箱 | burning tank | | |
| 欲火焚身 | yù huǒ fén shēn | burning with desire | |
| 火烫 | huǒ tàng | burning hot / fiery / to have one's hair permed with hot curling tongs | |
| 薪火相传 | xīn huǒ xiāng chuán | lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom) / fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another | |
| 纸火锅 | zhǐ huǒ guō | paper hot pot (hot pot using a single-use pot made of Japanese washi paper with a special coating to prevent burning and leaking, used for cooking at the dining table) | |
| 𬉼 | ǒu | copious smoke produced by smoldering firewood / half alight / to use the smoke of burning wormwood etc to repel insects | |
