to burn down; to destroy with fire

to burn

to cremate

to cremate

to destroy one's ink-slab (i.e. to write no more because others write so much better)

foehn wind (loanword)

to burn incense

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])

lit. to burn zithers and cook cranes; fig. to waste valuable resources; to destroy wantonly beautiful things

to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day

to burn incense in prayer to a God