焚	38A05   10.81	部居	畫數  12	ㄈㄣˊ [fen2] .
V	(LL) Burn (=vern. 燒 [shao1]): 焚毀 destroy by fire; 焚斃 burn (-ed) to death; 焚掠，焚劫 (of troops and bandits) burn houses and loot; 焚稿 burn manuscipts; 焚香 burn incense and pray at temple; 焚琴煮鶴 (derog.) burn famous string instrument for fuel and cook crane for meat, vandalism, offence against culture; 焚書坑儒 burning of books and burying Confucianists alive in ravine by 秦始皇 in 213－212 B.C.; 焚膏繼晷 “burn midnight oil”in hard study; 玩火自焚 play with fire, burn one’s finger's; 焚溺 fire and drowning flood, symbol of people's misery under oppression.