焚 fén
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 火 — fire, flame
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
焚烧
fénshāo
to burn; to incinerate
Characters in this word
烧 shāo
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 火 — fire, flame
- Made of
- 火 fire, flame 尧 a legendary ancient emperor-sage
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 禁止露天焚烧秸秆，否则会加重空气污染并引发火灾。 Jìnzhǐ lùtiān fénshāo jiēgǎn, fǒuzé huì jiāzhòng kōngqì wūrǎn bìng yǐnfā huǒzāi. Open-air burning of straw is prohibited, otherwise it will worsen air pollution and trigger fires.
- 工厂按规定焚烧处理这些废弃的医疗垃圾。 Gōngchǎng àn guīdìng fénshāo chǔlǐ zhèxiē fèiqì de yīliáo lājī. The factory incinerates this discarded medical waste as required by regulations.
- 秋天不少农民喜欢在田里焚烧干草，烟雾很大。 Qiūtiān bù shǎo nóngmín xǐhuan zài tián lǐ fénshāo gāncǎo, yānwù hěn dà. In autumn many farmers like to burn dry grass in the fields, and the smoke is thick.
Related words
- 心急如焚 xīnjírúfén burning with anxiety; extremely anxious
- 发烧 fāshāo to have a fever
- 燃烧 ránshāo to burn
- 烧 shāo to burn; to heat
- 烧毁 shāohuǐ to burn down; to destroy by fire
- 粉碎 fěnsuì to crush; to shatter
- 分割 fēngē to divide; to cut apart; to separate
- 发掘 fājué to excavate; to discover and bring out
- 打磨 dǎmó to polish; to refine
- 动用 dòngyòng to use; to mobilise; to draw on
- 钉 dìng to nail; to fasten with nails
- 堆砌 duīqì to pile up; to stack; to overload with rhetoric