"焚" Chinese-English Dictionary
Le caractère 焚
焚
- Radical
- 火 (4 traits)
- Number of strokes
- 12
- Structure
- haut et bas
- Cangjie
- DDF 木木火
- Sijiao
- 4480.9
- Wubi
- SSOU
- GB 2312
- B7D9
- Big5
- B549
- Unicode
- U+711A
Decomposition Practice Sheet Dictionary of examples Synonyms
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 焚烧 焚燒 | to burn / to set on fire | syn | |
| 焚香 | to burn incense | syn | |
| 焚毁 焚燬 | to burn down / to destroy with fire | syn | |
| 焚化 | to cremate | syn | |
| 焚尸 焚屍 | to cremate | ||
| 焚书 焚書 | to burn the books (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC) | ||
| 焚风 焚風 | foehn wind (loanword) | syn | |
| 焚妻 | wife-burning | ||
| 焚砚 焚硯 | to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better) | ||
| 焚烧场 焚燒場 | burning ground | ||
| 焚烧箱 焚燒箱 | burning tank | ||
| 焚尸炉 焚屍爐 | crematorium / crematory oven | ||
| 焚膏继晷 焚膏繼晷 | to burn the midnight oil (idiom) / to work continuously night and day | syn | |
| 焚琴煮鹤 焚琴煮鶴 | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things | ||
| 焚书坑儒 焚書坑儒 | to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]) | ||
| 焚后处理 | afterburning | ||
| 焚香敬神 | to burn incense in prayer to a God |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 自焚 | self-immolation | ||
| 心急如焚 | to burn with impatience / torn with anxiety | syn | |
| 玉石俱焚 | to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) | ||
| 玩火自焚 | to play with fire and get burnt (idiom) / fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences / to get one's fingers burnt | syn | |
| 救焚益薪 | add firewood to put out the flames (idiom) / fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse / to add fuel to the fire | ||
| 兰艾同焚 蘭艾同焚 | 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 | ||
| 芝焚蕙叹 芝焚蕙歎 | lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom) / fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress | ||
| 露天焚烧 | open burning | ||
| 心急如焚 | see 心急火燎[xin1ji2-huo3liao3] | syn | |
| 欲火焚身 慾火焚身 | burning with desire |