| 焚 | [ fén ] to burn |
| 焚化 | [ fén huà ] to cremate |
| 焚屍 | [ fén shī ] to cremate |
| 焚屍爐 | [ fén shī lú ] crematorium, crematory oven |
| 焚書坑儒 | [ fén shū kēng rú ] to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2]) |
| 焚毀 | [ fén huǐ ] to burn down, to destroy with fire |
| 焚燒 | [ fén shaō ] to burn, to set on fire |
| 焚燬 | [ fén huǐ ] to burn down, to destroy with fire |
| 焚琴煮鶴 | [ fén qín zhǔ hè ] lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes, fig. to waste valuable resources, to destroy wantonly beautiful things |
| 焚硯 | [ fén yàn ] to destroy one's ink-slab, to write no more because others write so much better (idiom) |
| 焚膏繼晷 | [ fén gaō jì guǐ ] to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day |
| 焚風 | [ fén fēng ] foehn wind (loanword) |
| 焚香 | [ fén xiāng ] to burn incense |
| 焚香敬神 | [ fén xiāng jìng shén ] to burn incense in prayer to a God |
| ⇒ 心急如焚 | [ xīn jí rú fén ] to burn with impatience, torn with anxiety |
| ⇒ 慾火焚身 | [ yù huǒ fén shēn ] burning with desire |
| ⇒ 救焚益薪 | [ jiù fén yì xīn ] add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse, to add fuel to the fire |
| ⇒ 玉石俱焚 | [ yù shí jù fén ] to burn both jade and common stone, to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) |
| ⇒ 玩火自焚 | [ wán huǒ zì fén ] to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences, to get one's fingers burnt |
| ⇒ 自焚 | [ zì fén ] self-immolation |
| ⇒ 芝焚蕙嘆 | [ zhī fén huì tàn ] lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress |
| ⇒ 芝焚蕙歎 | [ zhī fén huì tàn ] lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress |
| ⇒ 蘭艾同焚 | [ lán aì tóng fén ] 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 |