to burn / to cook / to stew / to bake / to roast / to heat / to boil (tea, water etc) / fever / to run a temperature / (coll.) to let things go to one's head
烧
=
尧
+
火
:
Sherlock Holmes (sh) and Tang Yao (尧) are starting a riot in front of the aorta (ao1) by throwing Molotow cocktails (燃烧瓶, ran2 shao1 ping2) at it. Where the bottles burst small fires (火) start, but they go out very quickly.
炭
=
山
+
灰
:
Tecumseh (t) had a fire running in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but now it has already died down. With a fork (山) he is searching in the ash (灰) for the pieces and bits of charcoal (炭) that have formed during the fire.