火坑

pit of fire / fig. living hell

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

hole / pit / tunnel / to defraud

variant of 坑[keng1] / pit / hole

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

out of the frying pan into the fire (idiom)