火か中ちゅう

noun

in the fire; in the flames

Refers to something being physically inside a fire or flames. Often used in set phrases like 火中の栗を拾う (to take a risk for someone else).

• 彼かれは火か中ちゅうに飛とび込こんで子こ供どもを助たすけた。

  He jumped into the fire and saved the child.

• 火か中ちゅうの栗くりを拾ひろうような真似まねはやめなさい。

  Stop doing things like pulling someone else's chestnuts out of the fire.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

burning (something); throwing into the fire; committing to the flames

Only with reading かちゅう

Transitive action of setting something on fire or consigning it to flames. Used with する to form a verb. The reading is always かちゅう.

• 不ふ要ような書しょ類るいを火か中ちゅうした。

  I burned the unnecessary documents.

• 彼かれは証しょう拠こを火か中ちゅうしようとした。

  He tried to throw the evidence into the fire.