牡丹虽好，终须绿叶扶持

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.

(of a bird, animal or plant) male / key / hills

Mudan District of Heze City 菏澤市|菏泽市[He2 ze2 Shi4], Shandong / Mutan township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan

tree peony (Paeonia suffruticosa)

red / pellet / powder / cinnabar

although / even though

good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

end / finish

must / to have to / to wait

beard / mustache / feeler (of an insect etc) / tassel

green / (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lü4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)

green leaf / (fig.) actor playing a supporting role

to be in harmony

leaf / page / lobe / (historical) period / classifier for small boats / a surname

to support with the hand / to help sb up / to support oneself by holding onto something / to help

to help / to assist

to hold / to grasp / to support / to maintain / to persevere / to manage / to run (i.e. administer) / to control