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Trad	Simp	Mandarin	Definition	Days old	Ver
焚	焚	[fen2]	/to burn/	5666	1
焚風	焚风	[fen2 feng1]	/foehn wind (loanword)/	4972	1
焚膏繼晷	焚膏继晷	[fen2 gao1 ji4 gui3]	/to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day/	6352	1
焚化	焚化	[fen2 hua4]	/to cremate/	6518	1
焚燬	焚毁	[fen2 hui3]	/to burn down/to destroy with fire/	1962	1
焚毀	焚毁	[fen2 hui3]	/to burn down/to destroy with fire/	6444	1
焚琴煮鶴	焚琴煮鹤	[fen2 qin2 zhu3 he4]	/lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes/fig. to waste valuable resources/to destroy wantonly beautiful things/	5930	1
焚燒	焚烧	[fen2 shao1]	/to burn/to set on fire/	5571	1
焚屍	焚尸	[fen2 shi1]	/to cremate/	6604	1
焚屍爐	焚尸炉	[fen2 shi1 lu2]	/crematorium/crematory oven/	6518	1
焚書坑儒	焚书坑儒	[fen2 shu1 keng1 ru2]	/to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])/	3211	1
焚香	焚香	[fen2 xiang1]	/to burn incense/	6601	1
焚香敬神	焚香敬神	[fen2 xiang1 jing4 shen2]	/to burn incense in prayer to a God/	6601	1
焚硯	焚砚	[[fen2yan4]]	/to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)/	852	2
救焚益薪	救焚益薪	[jiu4 fen2 yi4 xin1]	/add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse/to add fuel to the fire/	6352	1
蘭艾同焚	兰艾同焚	[lan2 ai4 tong2 fen2]	/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/	6352	1
玩火自焚	玩火自焚	[wan2 huo3 zi4 fen2]	/to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences/to get one's fingers burnt/	6352	1
心急火燎	心急火燎	[[xin1ji2-huo3liao3]]	/see 心急如焚[xin1ji2-ru2fen2]/	41	2
心急如焚	心急如焚	[[xin1ji2-ru2fen2]]	/(idiom) burning with anxiety; extremely anxious or impatient/	41	2
心急如火	心急如火	[[xin1ji2-ru2huo3]]	/see 心急如焚[xin1ji2-ru2fen2]/	41	2
慾火焚身	欲火焚身	[yu4 huo3 fen2 shen1]	/burning with desire/	5770	1
玉石俱焚	玉石俱焚	[yu4 shi2 ju4 fen2]	/to burn both jade and common stone/to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)/	6210	1
芝焚蕙嘆	芝焚蕙叹	[zhi1 fen2 hui4 tan4]	/lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress/	6352	1
自焚	自焚	[[zi4fen2]]	/to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate/	329	2

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