to burn

焚 character breakdown

surname Mu
tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree. Malte Monkey is putting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He's using a cross (十) as a base to put the tree on, and decorates the tree with eight-balls (八).
surname Huo
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

Characters with 焚 as component

焚 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 焚

to burn / to set on fire
to burn down / to destroy with fire
to burn down / to destroy with fire
to burn with impatience / torn with anxiety
crematorium / crematory oven
to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])
add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse / to add fuel to the fire
lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes / fig. to waste valuable resources / to destroy wantonly beautiful things
to destroy one's ink-slab / to write no more because others write so much better (idiom)
to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)

Sentences with 焚

焚 currently does not appear in any sentence.