焚 — Chinese character
焚
fén
to burn
- Pinyin
- fén
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 林 火
- Formation
- ideographic — Setting fire 火 to a forest 林
- Japanese
- 焚 as a kanji
Common words with 焚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 焚烧 (焚燒) | fén shāo | to burn; to set on fire |
| 自焚 | zì fén | to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate |
| 焚毁 (焚毀) | fén huǐ | to burn down; to destroy with fire |
| 焚毁 (焚燬) | fén huǐ | to burn down; to destroy with fire |
| 焚化 | fén huà | to cremate |
| 焚香 | fén xiāng | to burn incense |
| 欲火焚身 (慾火焚身) | yù huǒ fén shēn | burning with desire |
| 心急如焚 | xīn jí rú fén | (idiom) burning with anxiety; extremely anxious or impatient |
| 焚书坑儒 (焚書坑儒) | 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 (Qín Shǐ huáng)) |
| 焚尸 (焚屍) | fén shī | to cremate |
| 玉石俱焚 | yù shí jù fén | to burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) |
| 焚风 (焚風) | fén fēng | foehn wind (loanword) |
焚 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Art of War 1 · I Ching 3 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 4
- Analects 10.12
- Art of War 11.39
- Hexagram 30
- Hexagram 56
- Mencius 3A.4
- Mencius 5A.2
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi Opening Trunks
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.