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Hanzi Character Search: 焚

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burn
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 8 Total Strokes 12
Mandarin reading fén fèn Cantonese reading fan4
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Korean reading pwun Vietnamese reading

CEDICT Entries:

   [ fén shī ]    to cremate
   [ fén shī ]    crematorium, crematory oven
   [ fén shū kēng ]    to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
   [ fén huǐ ]    to burn down, to destroy with fire
   [ fén shaō ]    to burn, to set on fire
   [ fén huǐ ]    to burn down, to destroy with fire
   [ fén qín zhǔ ]    lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes, fig. to waste valuable resources, to destroy wantonly beautiful things
   [ fén yàn ]    to destroy one's ink-slab, to write no more because others write so much better (idiom)
   [ fén gaō guǐ ]    to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
   [ fén fēng ]    foehn wind (loanword)
⇒    [ huǒ fén shēn ]    burning with desire
⇒    [ 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
⇒    [ 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
⇒    [ lán 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

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