好心沒好報

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǎoxīn méi hǎobào

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄠˇ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄇㄟˊ ㄏㄠˇ ㄅㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² sam¹ mut⁶ hou² bou³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hǎoxīn méi hǎobào
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄠˇ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄇㄟˊ ㄏㄠˇ ㄅㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hǎosin méi hǎobào
    • Wade–Giles: hao³-hsin¹ mei² hao³-pao⁴
    • Yale: hǎu-syīn méi hǎu-bàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: haoshin mei haobaw
    • Palladius: хаосинь мэй хаобао (xaosinʹ mɛj xaobao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕin⁵⁵ meɪ̯³⁵ xɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou² sam¹ mut⁶ hou² bou³
    • Yale: hóu sām muht hóu bou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou² sam¹ mut⁹ hou² bou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou² sem¹ mud⁶ hou² bou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ sɐm⁵⁵ muːt̚² hou̯³⁵ pou̯³³/

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”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
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

Antonyms

• 好心有好報／好心有好报