药石无灵 — Chinese idiom

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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