[Kejebra]

Hmm, you see, I'm an artist, and right now I'm into drawing and writing about things that oppose eachother, for example love - hate, true - false etc.

And I'm also very interested in the japanese culture (even though I know next to nothing about writing it). So I was thinking of drawing some kanji and put up on my walls, or even get a tattoo (if my friends allow me to).

So here is the tricky thing. I've done some research and I find it very disturbing that I sometimes see words, like reality and plenty of others, depicted with only one kanji and sometimes with two. I suppose that for a native speaker this might seem as no problem at all, but I just can't get it into my head.

I don't want to draw anything wrong, and most certainly not get a tattoo that is wrong. What would happen if I draw only the first symbol in the word reality compared to using two?

One other example I think I saw. Love and Hate was depicted. But when the word Hate was alone it had another kanji next to it.

(inside my head is a tornado)