The Chinese name means, roughly, "safety and trust." It's pronounced Anfu, and I guess they decided amber was a reasonably close phonetic approximation. (The name Amber is usually rendered in Chinese as Anbo. Baltic amber is called hupo, and ambergris is longxianxiang, literally "dragon saliva fragrance.")
Monday, June 9, 2025
Amber yet again
Today I went to four different animal hospitals, none of which were able to help me. Googling for any others in the area, I found one more that I'd never heard of and went there. They had what I needed. Not until I had arrived did I find out that they had an English name in addition to the Chinese one lsited on Google:
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