Tangerine, pronounced jú zi.

jú, consonant j, rhymes with u, tone diphthong.

zi, pronounced z, rhymes with i, and has a soft tone.

Tangerine is the fruit of some plants in the subfamily of Citrus, family Rutaceae (written more formally as tangerine), and both "橘" (jú) and "桔" (jié) are standardized characters in modern Chinese. When "tangerine" is pronounced jú, it is a common character for "orange".

Tangerine (Orange) for the fragrant family, Citrus genus evergreen trees or shrubs Fukuo orange or Zhu orange and other kinds of orange ripe fruit. Orange is often collectively referred to as citrus with mandarin, brightly colored, sweet and sour, is one of the most common fruits in daily life.

Near Species Difference

Tangerine, tangerine, and orange are three different varieties of citrus fruits, which are easily confused due to their similar appearance. Citrus, a general term for tangerines, mandarins, oranges, kumquats, pomelo, and hedgehogs, citrus and orange names have long been confused.

According to the scientific point of view to measure, orange is the basic species, small flowers, peeling, seed embryo more dark green; Citrus is orange and sweet orange and other citrus hybrids, flowers, fruit peeling is not as good as orange peeling, seed embryo for light green.

So, in the wide-skinned citrus, orange citrus (rutabaga) is orange is not citrus, Wenzhou Mi orange is citrus is not orange. Citrus and orange in plant taxonomy is the same family and genus but different species of woody plants. In addition, citrus and orange both often collectively referred to as "citrus".