好心沒好報

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See also: 好心没好报

Chinese

goodheartedness; kindness; goodhearted
goodheartedness; kindness; goodhearted; kind
 
have not; drowned; to end
have not; drowned; to end; to die; to inundate
 
 recompense; reward
trad. (好心沒好報) 好心 沒 好報
simp. (好心没好报) 好心 没 好报
Literally: “good-heartedness has no recompense”.

Pronunciation

Proverb

好心沒好報

  1. no good deed goes unpunished; those who help often end up being resented by those whom they help

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 好心沒好報 (“no good deed goes unpunished”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 好心沒好報, 好心沒好意, 好心不得好報
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 好心沒好報
Singapore 好心沒好報
Cantonese Guangzhou 好心唔得好報, 好心著雷劈, 好心冇好報，好頭帶爛帽
Hong Kong 好心冇好報, 好心著雷劈
Hakka Meixian 好心無好報, 好心著雷打
Huizhou (Huicheng; Bendihua) 好心著雷劈, 好心冇好報，好柴燒爛灶
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 好心著雷打
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 好心著雷打
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 好心著雷打
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 好心著雷打
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 好心著雷打
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 好心得雷打
Southern Min Xiamen 好心予雷舂, 好心予雷唚, 好心予雷拍死
Quanzhou 好心予雷舂
Zhangzhou 好心予雷舂
Tainan 好心予雷舂, 好心予雷唚
Leizhou 好心無好報

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