好心冇好報

Chinese

		goodheartedness; kindness; goodhearted goodheartedness; kindness; goodhearted; kind	not have (dialectal)	recompense; reward
trad. (好心冇好報)		好心	冇	好報
simp. (好心冇好报)		好心	冇	好报
alternative forms		好心無好報／好心无好报

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hou² sam¹ mou⁵ hou² bou³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hou² sam¹ mou⁵ hou² bou³
    • Yale: hóu sām móuh hóu bou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hou² sam¹ mou⁵ hou² bou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: hou² sem¹ mou⁵ hou² bou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hou̯³⁵ sɐm⁵⁵ mou̯¹³ hou̯³⁵ pou̯³³/

Proverb

好心冇好報

1. (Cantonese) 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