好心乞雷拍
Chinese
| passive voice indicator | thunder | to clap; to pat; to beat to clap; to pat; to beat; to hit; to slap; to take (a picture) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (好心乞雷拍) | 好心 | 乞 | 雷 | 拍 | |
| simp. #(好心乞雷拍) | 好心 | 乞 | 雷 | 拍 | |
Pronunciation
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ho3 sing1 koh6 lui2 pa6 / ho3 sing1 keh6 lui2 pa6
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ho3 sing1 koh6 lui2 pa6 [Phonetic: ho5 sing1 koh7 lui2 pa6]
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: heô-sing keoh lúi pā
- Sinological IPA (key): /ho⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ɬiŋ⁵³³ kʰɔʔ²¹⁻⁴⁵ lui¹³ pʰa¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ho3 sing1 keh6 lui2 pa6 [Phonetic: ho5 sing1 keh7 lui2 pa6]
- Sinological IPA (key): /ho³³²⁻²¹ ɬiŋ⁵⁴⁴ kʰɛʔ²⁻⁴ lui²⁴ pʰa²¹/
- (Putian)
Proverb
好心乞雷拍
- (Puxian Min) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Jieyang | 好心乞雷敲 | |
| Leizhou | 好心無好報 | |
| Puxian Min | Putian | 好心乞雷拍 |
| Xianyou | 好心乞雷拍 | |
References
- 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN.