| 不要在一棵树上吊死 |
bù yào zài yī kē shù shàng diào sǐ |
don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat |
| 不 |
bù |
no; not so / (bound form) not; un- |
| 不要 |
bù yào |
don't!; must not |
| 要 |
yāo |
(bound form) to demand; to coerce |
| 要 |
yào |
to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是) / (bound form) important |
| 在 |
zài |
to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) |
| 一 |
yī |
one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit |
| 棵 |
kē |
classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc |
| 树 |
shù |
tree / CL:棵 / to cultivate / to set up |
| 上 |
shǎng |
used in 上声 |
| 上 |
shàng |
(bound form) up; upper; above; previous / first (of multiple parts) / to climb; to get onto; to go up / to attend (class or university) / (directional complement) up / (noun suffix) on; above |
| 上吊 |
shàng diào |
to hang oneself |
| 吊 |
diào |
to suspend / to hang up / to hang a person |
| 吊 |
diào |
a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of 吊 |
| 吊死 |
diào sǐ |
death by hanging / to hang oneself |
| 死 |
sǐ |
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned |