焚

to burn

woods / forest / CL:片[pian4] / circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / a collection (of similar things)

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

to burn / to set on fire

to burn down / to destroy with fire

to burn down / to destroy with fire

to cremate

to burn with impatience / torn with anxiety

to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇[Qin2 Shi3 huang2])

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

burning with desire

add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse / to add fuel to the fire

to cremate

crematorium / crematory oven