burning with desire

to set oneself on fire; to self-immolate

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

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

(idiom) burning with anxiety; extremely anxious or impatient

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

to burn both jade and common stone; to destroy indiscriminately (idiom)

to play with fire and get burnt (idiom); fig. to play with evil and suffer the consequences; to get one's fingers burnt

lit. when one grass burns the other grass sighs (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress