焚
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to burn
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 火 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 焚
- Common rank
- #2,448
- Unicode
- U+711A
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Formation & memory
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Words with 焚
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 心急如焚 | (idiom) burning with anxiety; extremely anxious or impatient | |
| 玩火自焚 | to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequence… | |
| 欲火焚身 | burning with desire | |
| 兰艾同焚 | lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscrimin… | |
| 焚香敬神 | to burn incense in prayer to a God | |
| 玉石俱焚 | to burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) | |
| 自焚 | to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate | |
| 焚化 | to cremate | |
| 焚风 | foehn wind (loanword) | |
| 焚香 | to burn incense | |
| 焚书坑儒 | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly comm… | |
| 焚烧 | to burn; to set on fire | |
| 焚尸炉 | crematorium; crematory oven | |
| 焚琴煮鹤 | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonl… | |
| 焚尸 | to cremate | |
| 焚毁 | to burn down; to destroy with fire | |
| 焚毁 | to burn down; to destroy with fire | |
| 焚砚 | to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better) | |
| 焚膏继晷 | to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day | |
| 芝焚蕙叹 | lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like… |