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HSK
to burn down / to destroy with fire
(idiom) burning with anxiety; extremely anxious or impatient
HSK 7-9
to cremate
to burn / to set on fire
HSK 7-9
burning with desire
to burn incense in prayer to a God
to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)
foehn wind (loanword)
to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate
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
to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)
to cremate
to burn down / to destroy with fire
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇)
to burn incense
to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences / to get one's fingers burnt
crematorium / crematory oven
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *焚* | 焚* | *焚
to burn
lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress


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