死馬當活馬醫 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 死马当活马医 sǐmǎdànghuómǎyī ㄙˇ ㄇㄚˇ ㄉㄤˋ ㄏㄨㄛˊ ㄇㄚˇ ㄧ lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation Character by character 死(sǐ)die 馬(mǎ)surname Ma 當(dàng)at or in the very same... 活(huó)live 馬(mǎ)surname Ma 醫(yī)medical A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0