焚 Stroke Order — How to Write 焚

Stroke Order

焚 is written in 12 strokes, following the standard Chinese stroke order. Start from the radical 火, then complete the remaining strokes.

Stroke order matters in Chinese: it keeps the character balanced, and it is how dictionaries and handwriting input methods expect a character to be written.

焚 Radical and Character Components

Components:林火

焚 is an ideographic compound. Setting fire 火 to a forest 林.

Radical: 火 + 8 more strokes

焚 Pronunciation and Pinyin

fén

Meanings of 焚 in Chinese

fén焚

To burn; often used in phrases describing burning for destruction, rituals, or intense emotional states like anxiety, or diligent effort.

为了赶上截止日期，团队成员常常焚膏继晷地工作。

To meet the deadline, the team members often burned the midnight oil.

Common Words and Phrases with 焚

fén焚huà化

To burn something completely; to incinerate or cremate.

他们将收集到的废弃神像进行焚化，以示尊敬。

They incinerated the collected discarded statues to show respect.

fén焚huǐ毁

to burn down; to destroy by fire

一场意外的大火将那座古老的图书馆焚毁了。

An accidental fire burned down the ancient library.

fén焚shāo烧

to burn or set on fire, often to destroy something completely

为了防止疾病传播，农场工人将所有感染的作物都进行了焚烧处理。

To prevent the spread of disease, farm workers incinerated all infected crops.

fén焚shū书

The burning or destruction of books, pictures, or other works considered politically or socially harmful or subversive.

为了净化社区文化环境，居民们决定将那些宣扬暴力和迷信的刊物进行焚书处理

To purify the community's cultural environment, residents decided to burn publications that promote violence and superstition.

fén焚shū书kēng坑rú儒

Refers to the act of burning books and burying Confucian scholars alive, specifically by Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

在那个思想受限的时代，一些人担心新的规定可能会导致某种形式的焚书坑儒，让人们失去获取知识的自由。

In that era of restricted thought, some people worried that new regulations might lead to a form of 'burning books and burying scholars alive,' depriving people of the freedom to acquire knowledge.

fén焚xiāng香

to burn or light joss sticks