The kanji 橘 represents a type of citrus fruit, specifically the mandarin orange or tangerine. It refers to the plant itself and the fruit it produces. The core meaning centers around this specific type of citrus.

・On-yomi (音読み): キツ (kitsu) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): たちばな (tachibana)

⚫︎橘の木 Translation: Tangerine tree ⚫︎橘の実 Translation: Tangerine fruit ⚫︎橘湾 Translation: Tachibana Bay (This is a place name)

The kanji 橘 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字, けいせいもじ). The left side is a radical called 木, the radical of "tree" or "wood," indicating the category of the character, which is a tree. The right side is a phonetic component, 口, originally representing the sound. The combination of these two components forms the meaning related to a citrus tree and its fruit.