Animated Stroke Order of 焚：
Radical：火 Strokes：12
Pinyin & Definition:
| fén | burn |
| fén | to burn |
Related Chinese characters:
Words with Chinese Character 焚:
| fén | burn |
| fén | to burn |
| 焚 | burn |
| 焚书 | to burn the books (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC) |
| 焚书坑儒 | to burn the books and bury alive the Confucian scholars (one of the crimes of the first Emperor in 212 BC) |
| 焚化 | to cremate |
| 焚化炉 | incinerator; furnace |
| 焚尸 | to cremate |
| 焚尸扬灰 | burn the corps and scatter the ashes |
| 焚尸灭迹 | to burn someone's body to cover up the crime |
| 焚尸炉 | crematorium crematory oven |
| 焚林而猎 | To hunt by burning forests. Used as a metaphor to indicate an action which is concerned with current interests only with no consideration of long term interests. |
| 焚毁 | to burn down to destroy with fire |
| 焚烧 | to burn set on fire |
| 焚烧率 | the burning rate |
| 焚琴煮鹤 | lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes fig. to waste valuable resources to destroy wantonly beautiful things |
| 焚砚 | to destroy one's ink-slab to write no more because others write so much better (idiom) |
| 焚膏继晷 | to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day |
| 焚身 | to bring ruin to oneself because of greediness |
| 焚风 | fohn; foehn |
| 焚香 | to burn incense |
| 焚香敬神 | to burn incense in prayer to a God |