@Nagoyankee, hehe yeah.. if i was gonna get a tattoo, i'd probably choose one of those, LOL
@MMM, thats just really ..weird. how do you pronounce 米国 and 豪州?

My favourite for looks is:
みず
水

I dunno, I just like how angular it is.

Compounds I like are
えい＿＿＿＿＿ご
英語

and
と＿＿＿＿＿＿しょ＿＿＿かん
図書館

Although, that very last one (かん) is a bit of a pain in the ass to write with a brush pen...

good stuff!

I liked strange relationships in kanji.　One stroke means so much...

水　氷

大　犬

小　少

I already said how to pronounce 豪州 - ごうしゅう
as for 米国 - べいこく

another kanji i like,

迚
とても／とて - some way or other, very

while very rare it is 国字 - a Japan native character. while you'll probably never see it used, it can be used to say 迚も - とても as in 迚も奇麗だ - very beautiful.

You know, I think one of my absolute favourite Japanese characters is actually a hiragana....

ゑ

Romanized as "we", but considered obsolete since the WW2 era.

I might start using it in place of the particle へ on my Japanese homework. That's bound to get a quip from my sensei :cool: .

No doubt about it! You've gotta be 200 years old to use that one!

But then, if you're a poet or something, you might use it for aesthetic reasons if not in your compos for school.

this old one is pretty cool too:
ゐ

this one coz it looks cool, means beautiful, and its part of my name:

美

As someone who has taught Japanese, as fun as it is to "bring in" those retired characters (and don't get me wrong, I love them, too) making your teacher look goofy and forcing her to explain why this character isn't in use anymore is kind of a low-blow. Yes it exists. No, she wasn't hiding it from you. But it is kind of like spelling "old" as "olde". No, it isn't "wrong", but it doesn't help things.

ゑゐ

those are hiragana?? :D lol