焚
fén
Pinyin

Definition

焚
 - 
fén
  1. to burn

Character Decomposition

Related Words (10)

玉石俱焚
yù shí jù fén
  1. 1 to burn both jade and common stone
  2. 2 to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
焚尸
fén shī
  1. 1 to cremate
焚烧
fén shāo
  1. 1 to burn
  2. 2 to set on fire
焚香
fén xiāng
  1. 1 to burn incense
玩火自焚
wán huǒ zì fén
  1. 1 to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences
  2. 2 to get one's fingers burnt

Idioms (8)

救焚益薪
jiù fén yì xīn
  1. 1 add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse
  2. 2 to add fuel to the fire
焚砚
fén yàn
  1. 1 to destroy one's ink-slab
  2. 2 to write no more because others write so much better (idiom)
焚膏继晷
fén gāo jì guǐ
  1. 1 to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
玉石俱焚
yù shí jù fén
  1. 1 to burn both jade and common stone
  2. 2 to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
玩火自焚
wán huǒ zì fén
  1. 1 to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences
  2. 2 to get one's fingers burnt

Sample Sentences

回收了还得利用好才行。管理、技术都得跟上。简单堆放和填埋的话，城市真的要被垃圾包围了。焚烧也不太好。都会造成二次污染。
huíshōu le hái děi lìyòng hǎo cái xíng 。guǎnlǐ 、jìshù dōu děi gēnshàng 。jiǎndān duīfàng hé tiánmái dehuà ，chéngshì zhēnde yào bèi lājī bāowéi le 。fén shāo yě bù tài hǎo 。dōuhuì zàochéng èrcì wūrǎn 。
You need to make good use of the stuff for recycling to work. Management and technology all need to catch up. If they just simply make garbage piles and bury trash, cities will be surrounded in garbage. Burning it isn't the greatest, either. It will cause secondary pollution.
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林峰，别捣乱了！谁知道什么是焚书坑儒？
Lín Fēng ，bié dǎoluàn le ！shéi zhīdào shénme shì fénshūkēngrú ？
Lin Feng, don't cause trouble. Who knows what ''burn books and bury scholars" was all about?
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