Translation guide
A specific citrus fruit: a less sour cultivar of the natsumikan (summer orange). This is a concrete noun referring to a particular type of Japanese citrus.
Referring to the less sour variety of natsumikan as a fruit or food item.
Common abbreviation for 'amanatsumikan', the sweet summer orange. This is the standard everyday term.
甘夏を食べました。
I ate a sweet natsumikan.
Full name, literally 'sweet summer mandarin'. Slightly more formal or explanatory.
この甘夏みかんはあまり酸っぱくないです。
This sweet natsumikan is not very sour.
Uses the kanji 柑 (citrus). Less common, somewhat literary or old-fashioned.
甘夏柑は夏が旬です。
Sweet natsumikan are in season in summer.