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善有善报

shànyǒushànbào

virtue has its rewards (idiom); one good turn deserves another

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virtue has its rewards (idiom); one good turn deserves another

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善有善报,恶有恶报。shàn yǒu shàn bào, è yǒu è bào。

What goes around comes around.

你也知道那句话,「善有善报,恶有恶报」。我搧的风,现在火就来了。nǐ yě zhī dào nà jù huà,「shàn yǒu shàn bào, è yǒu è bào」。 wǒ shān de fēng, xiàn zài huǒ jiù lái le。

You know the phrase, we reap what we sow. I have sown the wind and this is my storm.

俗话说:善有善报,恶有恶报;话又说:人善被人欺,马善被人骑!sú huà shuō: shàn yǒu shàn bào, è yǒu è bào; huà yòu shuō: rén shàn bèi rén qī, mǎ shàn bèi rén qí!

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The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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What does 善有善报 mean in Chinese?

善有善报 (shànyǒushànbào) means virtue has its rewards (idiom); one good turn deserves another.

How do you pronounce 善有善报?

善有善报 is pronounced shànyǒushànbào.

Is 善有善报 an HSK word?

善有善报 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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