換湯不換藥 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 换汤不换药 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 換(huàn)exchange 湯(tāng)surname Tang 不(bù)no 換(huàn)exchange 藥(yào)medicine A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0