牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶
mǔ​dan​suī​hǎo​quán​zhàng​lǜ​yè​fú

the peony is beautiful but depends on its leaves

  • created sense approved 牡丹虽好，全仗绿叶扶/牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶 · mǔ​dan​suī​hǎo​quán​zhàng​lǜ​yè​fú · the peony is beautiful but depends on its leaves — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    牡丹虽好，全仗绿叶扶 / 牡丹雖好，全仗綠葉扶

    mǔ​dan​suī​hǎo​quán​zhàng​lǜ​yè​fú

    the peony is beautiful but depends on its leaves

    Although the peony is beautiful, it depends entirely on help from the green leaves; used as an idiom meaning that however brilliant a person may be, they cannot succeed without support from others

    牡丹 (literal) → 牡丹 · mǔ​dan · peony 虽 (literal) → 虽/雖 · suī · although 好 (literal) → 好 · hǎo · good ， (non_chinese) 全 (literal) → 全 · quán · completely 仗 (literal) → 仗 · zhàng · to rely on 绿叶 (literal) → 绿叶/綠葉 · lǜ​yè · green leaves 扶 (literal) → 扶 · fú · to assist

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense