换汤不换药

Traditional form:

換湯不換藥

Pinyin (reading):

huàntāngbùhuànyào

Definitions:

• different broth but the same old medicine (idiom); a change in name only
• a change in form but not in substance

Characters:

• 换 - to change; to exchange, to swap, to trade
• 汤 - soup, gravy, broth; hot water
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 换 - to change; to exchange, to swap, to trade
• 药 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant

Traditional characters:

• 換 - to change; to exchange, to swap, to trade
• 湯 - soup, gravy, broth; hot water
• 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
• 換 - to change; to exchange, to swap, to trade
• 藥 - drugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica plant