English
- burn
- to burn
- to burn
粵語
- 燒毁
As a component in
Words containing 焚
- 焚燒fan4 siu1
to burn
- 自焚zi6 fan4
to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate
- 焚毀fan4 wai2
to burn down
- 焚燬fan4 wai2
to burn down
- 焚化fan4 faa3
to cremate
- 焚風fan4 fung1
foehn wind (loanword)
- 焚化爐fan4 faa3 lou4
incinerator
- 心急如焚sam1 gap1 jyu4 fan4
(idiom) burning with anxiety; extremely anxious or impatient
- 焚硯fan4 jin6
to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)
- 玉石俱焚juk6 sek6 keoi1 fan4
to burn both jade and common stone
- 焚香fan4 hoeng1
to burn incense
- 焚屍fan4 si1
to cremate
- 焚屍爐fan4 si1 lou4
crematorium
- 玩火自焚waan2 fo2 zi6 fan4
to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences
- 焚琴煮鶴fan4 kam4 zyu2 hok6
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes
- 引火自焚jan5 fo2 zi6 fan4
to invite for trouble for oneself
- 焚化墟fan4 faa3 heoi1
- 焚香敬神fan4 hoeng1 ging3 san4
to burn incense in prayer to a God
- 焚書坑儒fan4 syu1 haang1 jyu4
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
- 焚膏繼晷fan4 gou1 gai3 gwai2
to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
- 怒火如焚nou6 fo2 jyu4 fan4
- 憂心如焚jau1 sam1 jyu4 fan4
to be dreadfully worried and anxious
- 蘭艾同焚laan4 ngaai6 tung4 fan4
lit. to burn both fragrant orchids and stinking weeds (idiom); fig. to destroy indiscriminately the noble and common
- 慾火焚身juk6 fo2 fan4 san1
burning with desire