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牡丹虽好，终须绿叶扶持

mǔ dan suī hǎo , zhōng xū lǜ yè fú chí

11-character word Traditional 牡丹雖好，終須綠葉扶持

What 牡丹虽好，终须绿叶扶持 means

1. Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves (idiom). However brilliant you may be, you can't do anything without support from others.

The characters in 牡丹虽好，终须绿叶扶持

• 牡mǔ(of a bird, animal or plant) male; key; hills
• 丹dānred; pellet; powder
• 虽suīalthough; even though
• 好hǎogood; appropriate; proper; all right!
• 终zhōngend; finish
• 须xūmust; to have to; to wait
• 绿lǜgreen; (slang) (derived from 绿帽子
• 叶yèleaf; page; lobe
• 扶fúto support with the hand; to help sb up; to support oneself by holding onto something
• 持chíto hold; to grasp; to support