• 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

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).