好事不出門，惡事傳千里

lit. good deeds do not go beyond the door, evil deeds spread a thousand miles / a good deed goes unnoticed, but scandal spreads fast (idiom)

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

matter / thing / item / work / affair / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1],回[hui2]

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

to go out / to come out / to occur / to produce / to go beyond / to rise / to put forth / to happen / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

variant of 出[chu1] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)

good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead

to be meddlesome

thousand

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

used in 惡心|恶心[e3 xin1]

evil / fierce / vicious / ugly / coarse / to harm

to hate / to loathe / ashamed / to fear / to slander

a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance

to go out / to leave home / to go on a journey / away from home / (of a woman) to get married

evil / malicious deed

malicious deed; misdeed / disaster; catastrophe

to pass on / to spread / to transmit / to infect / to transfer / to circulate / to conduct (electricity)

biography / historical narrative / commentaries / relay station

evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire