焚

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 㷊 (The bottom (火) has been abbreviated into 灬)
• 燓 (Based on the seal script form of the character)

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 焚
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) - fire (火) + trees (木, duplicated into 林); hence the definition "burn". The seal script form has two diagonal crosses between the two trees (爻) symbolizng bushes.

Han character

焚 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木火 (DDF), four-corner 4480₉, composition ⿱林火)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 673, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19100
• Dae Jaweon: page 1081, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2208, character 9
• Unihan data for U+711A

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Chinese

trad.		焚
simp. #		焚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fén (fen²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan⁴ / fan³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hûn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ung⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fén
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fén
    • Wade–Giles: fên²
    • Yale: fén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fern
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fan⁴ / fan³
    • Yale: fàhn / fan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan⁴ / fan³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen⁴ / fen³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn²¹/, /fɐn³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hûn
    • Tâi-lô: hûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hun²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hun¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hun²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ung⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ûng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bjun

Rime
Character	焚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	符分切
Baxter	bjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/biun/
Shao Rongfen	/biuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bun/
Li Rong	/biuən/
Wang Li	/bĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fén
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]u[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*bun/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	焚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fén
Middle Chinese	‹ bjun ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]u[n]/
English	burn (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	焚
Reading #	1/1
No.	3195
Phonetic component	焚
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	汾
Old Chinese	/*bun/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 焚

1. to burn

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Japanese

Kanji

焚

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぶん (bun)
• Kan-on: ふん (fun)
• Kun: たく (taku, 焚く); やく (yaku, 焚く)

Compounds

Derived terms

• 焚(た)き付(つ)ける (takitsukeru)
• 焚(た)く (taku)
• 焚火(たきび) (takibi)
• 焚書(ふんしょ) (funsho)

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Korean

Hanja

焚 • (bun) (hangeul 분, McCune–Reischauer pun, Yale pun)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 焚 (phần, phàn, phừng)

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