| 焚尸 | [ fén shī  ]    to cremate | 
| 焚尸炉 | [ fén shī lú  ]    crematorium, crematory oven | 
| 焚书坑儒 | [ 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]) | 
| 焚毁 | [ fén huǐ  ]    to burn down, to destroy with fire | 
| 焚烧 | [ fén shaō  ]    to burn, to set on fire | 
| 焚毁 | [ fén huǐ  ]    to burn down, to destroy with fire | 
| 焚琴煮鹤 | [ fén qín zhǔ hè  ]    lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes, fig. to waste valuable resources, to destroy wantonly beautiful things | 
| 焚砚 | [ fén yàn  ]    to destroy one's ink-slab, to write no more because others write so much better (idiom) | 
| 焚膏继晷 | [ fén gaō jì guǐ  ]    to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day | 
| 焚风 | [ fén fēng  ]    foehn wind (loanword) | 
| ⇒ 欲火焚身 | [ yù huǒ fén shēn  ]    burning with desire | 
| ⇒ 芝焚蕙叹 | [ 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 | 
| ⇒ 芝焚蕙叹 | [ 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 | 
| ⇒ 兰艾同焚 | [ 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 |