药石无灵 — Chinese idiom
药石无灵
yào shí wú líng
Traditional: 藥石無靈
Meaning
- (of a sick person or disease) to be incurable
Character by character
- 药yàodrugs, medicine; the leaf of the Dahurian angelica
- 石shístone, rock, mineral
- 无wúno, not; lacking, -less
- 灵língspirit, soul; spiritual world
Idioms sharing a character
- 对症下药 duì zhèng xià yào
- 无可救药 wú kě jiù yào
- 良药苦口 liáng yào kǔ kǒu
- 药到病除 yào dào bìng chú
- 药食同源 yào shí tóng yuán
- 灵丹妙药 líng dān miào yào
- 一石二鸟 yī shí èr niǎo
- 以卵击石 yǐ luǎn jī shí
- 坚如磐石 jiān rú pán shí
- 安如磐石 ān rú pán shí
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