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焚

fén

Character

What 焚 means

1. to burn

Example sentences

• 他们正在焚书。
  Tāmen zhèngzài fén shū.
  They're carrying out a book burning.
• 哥伦布曾经在当地人偷了他的鹦鹉之后决定完全地烧毁整个村庄。因为他不能焚烧他们的水，所以他感到失望。于是他发明了氟。
  Gēlúnbù céngjīng zài dāngdì rén tōu le tā de yīngwǔ zhīhòu juédìng wánquán de shāo huǐ zhěnggè cūnzhuāng. yīnwèi tā bù néng fénshāo tāmen de shuǐ, suǒyǐ tā gǎndào shīwàng. Yúshì tā fāmíng le fú.
  Christopher Columbus once decided to burn absolutely everything in an entire village after one of the natives stole his parrot. He was disappointed that he couldn't burn their water. So he invented fluorine.

Words starting with 焚

• 焚烧fén shāoto burn; to set on fire
• 焚毁fén huǐto burn down; to destroy with fire
• 焚香fén xiāngto burn incense
• 焚化fén huàto cremate
• 焚尸fén shīto cremate
• 焚风fén fēngfoehn wind (loanword)
• 焚尸炉fén shī lúcrematorium; crematory oven
• 焚香敬神fén xiāng jìng shénto burn incense in prayer to a God
• 焚书坑儒fén shū kēng rúto burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars…
• 焚琴煮鹤fén qín zhǔ hèlit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources…
• 焚膏继晷fén gāo jì guǐto burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
• 焚砚fén yànto destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)

Words containing 焚

• 自焚zì fénto set oneself on fire; to self-immolate
• 心急如焚xīn jí rú fén(idiom) burning with anxiety; extremely anxious or impatient
• 欲火焚身yù huǒ fén shēnburning with desire
• 救焚益薪jiù fén yì xīnadd firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the…
• 玉石俱焚yù shí jù fénto burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
• 玩火自焚wán huǒ zì fénto play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the…
• 兰艾同焚lán ài tóng fénlit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom)…
• 芝焚蕙叹zhī fén huì tànlit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom)…

Characters built on 林

These share the phonetic component 林 (lín), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 森sēn(bound form) densely wooded; (fig.) (bound form) multitudinous; gloomy; forbidding
• 郴chēnused in 郴州
• 棼fénbeams in roof; confused

Characters that look like 焚

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 简jiǎnsimple; uncomplicated; letter
• 禁jìnto prohibit; to forbid
• 堂táng(main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; relationship between cousins etc on the…
• 楚chǔdistinct; clear; orderly
• 斐fěiphonetic fei or fi; (literary) rich with literary elegance; phi (Greek letter Φ, φ)
• 梵Fànabbr. for 梵教; abbr. for Sanskrit 梵语; abbr. for 梵蒂冈

Sounds the same

Read fén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 坟grave; tomb; embankment
• 汾name of a river
• 鼢used in 鼢鼠
• 棼beams in roof; confused
• 幩ornamental tassel on bridle
• 𣸣edge of water
• 蕡hemp seeds; luxurious; abundant
• 豮gelded pig
• 轒war chariot
• 魵shrimp
• 鼖large brass drum
• 蚡(mole)