跳 出 火 坑

tiào chū huǒ kēngdictionary entry

lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom) / to escape from a living hell / to free oneself from a life of torture

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Original source entry:

跳出火坑 跳出火坑 [tiao4 chu1 huo3 keng1] /lit. to jump out of a fire pit (idiom); to escape from a living hell/to free oneself from a life of torture/

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Character information

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跳
tiào
to jump / to hop / to skip over / to bounce / to palpitate
出
chū
to go out / to come out / to arise / to occur / to produce / to yield / to go beyond / to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
火
huǒ
fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
Huǒ
surname Huo
坑
kēng
pit / hollow / depression / (mining) pit / shaft / tunnel / (literary) to bury alive / (coll.) to cheat / to scam / to screw over

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