甘露

Chinese

		sweet; willingly; Gansu province (abbrev.)	to show; to reveal; to expose to show; to reveal; to expose; dew
trad. (甘露)		甘	露
simp. ^#(甘露)		甘	露

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gānlù

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄢㄌㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ lou⁶
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): kâm-lu

(Hailu, HRS): gam^ˋ lu^ˇ
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kam-lō͘

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gānlù
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄢㄌㄨˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ganlù
  - Wade–Giles: kan¹-lu⁴
  - Yale: gān-lù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganluh
  - Palladius: ганьлу (ganʹlu)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ lu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: gam¹ lou⁶
  - Yale: gām louh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ lou⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ lou⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ lou̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kâm-lu
  - Hakka Romanization System: gam^ˊ lu
  - Hagfa Pinyim: gam¹ lu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /kam²⁴⁻¹¹ lu⁵⁵/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: gam^ˋ lu^ˇ
  - Sinological IPA: /kam⁵³ lu¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-lō͘
  - Tâi-lô: kam-lōo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kamlo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kam⁴⁴⁻²² lɔ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kam³³ lɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kam⁴⁴⁻²² lɔ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kam⁴⁴⁻³³ lɔ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kam⁴⁴⁻³³ lɔ³³/

Middle Chinese: kam luH

Rime
Character	甘	露
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	談 (143)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古三切	洛故切
Baxter	kam	luH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑm/	/luo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑm/	/luo^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑm/	/lo^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kam/	/lɔ^H/
Li Rong	/kɑm/	/lo^H/
Wang Li	/kɑm/	/lu^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑm/	/luo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gān	lù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam¹	lou⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤ[a]m p.rˤak-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*kaːm ɡ·raːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	甘	露
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gān	lù
Middle Chinese	‹ kam ›	‹ lu^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁ[a]m/	/*p.rˁak-s/
English	sweet	dew; disclose
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	甘	露
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3652	3860
Phonetic component	甘	各
Rime group	談	暮
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	甘	路
Old Chinese	/*kaːm/	/*ɡ·raːɡs/

Etymology 1

“amrita”: Translation of Sanskrit अमृत (amṛta, “immortal”). Tibetan equivalent is བདུད་རྩི (bdud rtsi).

Noun

甘露

sweet dew
- 天地相合，以降甘露。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad. and simp.]
  From: Tao Te Ching, 4^th century BCE
  Tiāndì xiāng hé, yǐ jiàng gānlù. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
honeydew (sweet, sticky secretion by aphids); nectar
(Buddhism) amrita
(mythology) immortality potion

Derived terms

楊枝甘露 / 杨枝甘露 (yángzhī gānlù)
甘露之變 / 甘露之变
甘露味國 / 甘露味国
甘露味經 / 甘露味经
甘露味論 / 甘露味论
甘露子
甘露水漿 / 甘露水浆
甘露法雨
甘露滋心
甘露界
甘露經 / 甘露经
甘露醇 (gānlùchún)
甘露飯 / 甘露饭
甘露鼓經 / 甘露鼓经

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (甘露):

→ Japanese: 甘(かん)露(ろ) (kanro)
→ Korean: 감로(甘露) (gamno)
→ Vietnamese: cam lộ (甘露), cam lồ (甘露)

Further reading

Ding, Fubao (丁福保) (1922), “甘露” in 佛學大辭典 [A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms].

Etymology 2

Phono-semantic matching of English Kamloops.

Proper noun

甘露

(Hong Kong, Taiwan) Kamloops (a city in British Columbia, Canada)

Synonyms

(Mainland China) 坎盧普斯／坎卢普斯 (Kǎnlúpǔsī)
(Cantonese) 錦碌／锦碌

Japanese

Kanji in this term
甘	露
かん Grade: S	ろ Grade: S
on'yomi	kan'on

Noun

甘(かん)露(ろ) • (kanro)

(Hindu mythology) amrita
(Buddhism, figurative) (by extension) Buddha's teachings
(Chinese mythology) a heaven-bestowed elixir of immortality
something sweet; a sweetness
honeydew, nectar
high-grade sencha
Clipping of 甘露種 (kanroshu, “a kind of sweet wine”)
Clipping of 甘露水 (kanrosui, “sweetened water”)