• 茨いばら — thorn, briar
• 茨城県いばらきけん — Ibaraki Prefecture
• 茨道いばらみち — thorny path (figurative or literal)
• 茨いばら の 冠かんむり — crown of thorns

The radical 艹 (“grass”) signals that the kanji relates to plants. The rest of the character represents thorns or overgrowth. It often implies something tangled or difficult — whether literally (like thorn bushes) or metaphorically (as in hardship).

庭にわに 茨いばらが 生はえています。
Thorn bushes are growing in the garden.

彼かれの人生じんせいは 茨道いばらみちでした。
His life was a thorny path.

茨城県いばらきけんには 美うつくしい海岸かいがんがあります。
Ibaraki Prefecture has beautiful coastlines.

🎧 “シ” is the on-yomi, though it rarely appears in compound words. “いばら” is the kun-yomi and is widely recognized from both nature terms and place names like 茨城 (Ibaraki).