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Your free Chinese learning resource is here! This idiom and proverb series introduces phrases rich in meaning. Today, we explain 「善有善報」 and its usage.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「善有善報」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Shan: OK. Report: retribution. Doing good things will always bring good rewards. Often used together with “evil will be punished with evil.”

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shàn yǒu shàn bào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sin6 yau5 sin6 bou3

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