换汤不换药 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 換湯不換藥 huàntāngbùhuànyào ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄊㄤ ㄅㄨˋ ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄧㄠˋ different broth but the same old medicine (idiom) a change in name only a change in form but not in substance Character by character 换(huàn)exchange 汤(tāng)surname Tang 不(bù)no 换(huàn)exchange 药(yào)leaf of the iris A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0