不要在一棵树上吊死

don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

don't! / must not

to demand / to request / to coerce

important / vital / to want / to ask for / will / going to (as future auxiliary) / may / must / (used in a comparison) must be / probably / if

(bound form) to demand; to coerce

to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]) / (bound form) important

to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

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

classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc

tree / CL:棵[ke1] / to cultivate / to set up

used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]

(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

to hang oneself

to suspend / to hang up / to hang a person

a string of 100 cash (arch.) / to lament / to condole with / variant of 吊[diao4]

death by hanging / to hang oneself

to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned