焚 fén
fén
verb
to burn
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '焚')
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- 焚琴煮鹤(焚琴煮鶴) to burn zithers and cook cranes / to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
- 焚毁(焚燬) to burn down / to destroy with fire
- 焚膏继晷(焚膏繼晷) burning the midnight oil and working throughout the day
- 自焚 self-immolation
- 焚尸炉(焚屍爐) crematorium / crematory oven
- 救焚益薪 add firewood to put out the flames / ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse
- 焚书坑儒(焚書坑儒) to burn the books and bury Confucian scholars alive
- 继晷焚膏(繼晷焚膏) working throughout the day and burning the midnight oil
- 焚毁(焚毀) to burn down / to destroy with fire ; to burn down / to destroy with fire
- 玩火自焚 to play with fire and get burnt / to play with evil and suffer the consequences
- 焚砚(焚硯) to destroy one's ink-slab / to write no more because others write so much better
- 焚香敬神 to burn incense in prayer to a God
- 拯溺救焚 to save from drowing or a burning fire / to rescue
- 芝焚蕙叹(芝焚蕙嘆) when one grass burns the other grass sighs / to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress ; when one grass burns the other grass sighs / to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress
- 焚尸(焚屍) to cremate
- 兰艾同焚(蘭艾同焚) to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds / to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common
- 焚风(焚風) foehn wind
- 焚烧(焚燒) to burn / to set on fire
- 芝焚蕙叹(芝焚蕙歎) when one grass burns the other grass sighs / to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress
- 焚书(焚書) to burn the books
- 焚化 to cremate
- 欲火焚身(慾火焚身) burning with desire
- 玉石俱焚 to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately
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- 卷六十三 志第十六 五行二上 Volume 63 Treatises 16: Five Elements 2a History of Song 宋史 — count: 23
- 卷二百十二 列傳第一百 俞大猷 戚繼光 劉顯 李錫 張元勳 Volume 212 Biographies 100: Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, Liu Xian, Li Xi, Zhang Yuanxun History of Ming 明史 — count: 16
- 卷三百十二 列傳第二百 四川土司二 Volume 312 Biographies 200: Sichuan Tribal Headmen 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 14
- 卷二百四十七 列傳第一百三十五 劉綎 李應祥 陳璘 鄧子龍 馬孔英 Volume 247 Biographies 135: Liu Ting, Li Yingxiang, Chen Lin, Deng Zilong, Ma Kongying History of Ming 明史 — count: 12
- 卷三百〇九 列傳第一百九十七 流賊 李自成 張獻忠 Volume 309 Biographies 197: Traitors - Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong History of Ming 明史 — count: 12
- 卷四十 本紀第四十 寧宗四 Volume 40 Annals 40: Ningzong 4 History of Song 宋史 — count: 11
- 卷二百〇五 列傳第九十三 朱紈 張經 胡宗憲 曹邦輔 李遂 唐順之 Volume 205 Biographies 93: Zhu Wan, Zhang Jing, Hu Zongxian, Cao Bangfu, Li Sui, Tang Shunzhi History of Ming 明史 — count: 11
- 卷三百十六 列傳第二百〇四 貴州土司 Volume 316 Biographies 204: Guizhou Tribal Headmen History of Ming 明史 — count: 11
- 襄公 Lord Xiang The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 10
- 卷四百九十五 列傳第二百五十四 蠻夷三 撫水州 廣源州 黎洞 環州 Volume 495 Biographies 254: Man People 3 - Fu Shuizhou, Guang Yuanzhou, Li Dong, Huan Zhou History of Song 宋史 — count: 10
Collocations
- 焚林 (焚林) 焚林而田 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八 本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 6
- 鸟焚 (鳥焚) 鳥焚其巢 — Book of Changes 易經, 旅 Lu — count: 5
- 焚舟 (焚舟) 濟河焚舟 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 文公 Lord Wen — count: 5
- 焚沛 (焚沛) 焚沛澤 — Guanzi 管子, 揆度第七十八 Chapter 78: Examining Standards — count: 4
- 焚莱 (焚萊) 陽虎使焚萊門 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 4
- 焚宫室 (焚宮室) 故越王焚宮室 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 內儲說上七術第三十 Chapter 30: A Collection of Sayings I — count: 3
- 毋焚 (毋焚) 毋焚山林 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 3
- 火焚 (火焚) 火焚其旗 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3
- 焚雍门 (焚雍門) 焚雍門 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
- 焚诗书 (焚詩書) 諸儒生疾秦焚詩書 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《封禪書》 Religious sacrificial ceremonies — count: 3