焚書坑儒 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 焚书坑儒 fénshūkēngrú ㄈㄣˊ ㄕㄨ ㄎㄥ ㄖㄨˊ to burn the Confucian classics and bury alive the Confucian scholars (acts supposedly committed by the first emperor 秦始皇 qínshǐhuáng) Character by character 焚(fén)burn 書(shū)book 坑(kēng)pit 儒(rú)scholar A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0