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love, affection, favorite.

The following paragraph is quoted from The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary, Second Revised Edition, by Andrew N. Nelson, and is here only to show the qualitiy of "the real thing".
アイ love, affection, favorite. あいする, ずる, でる, love; admire, appreciate. いとしい beloved, dear, loving, pitiable. まな〜love. [心]
Entries from Jim Breen's KANJIDIC follow.
SJIS character
3026
four-byte ASCII representaion of hexadecimal coding of the two-byte JUS encoding
B87
Bushu, or radical number
C61
Historical or classical radical number
DR2067
De Roo code
E417
Henshall index
F524
Halpern frequency ranking
G4
Grade level
H2492
Halpern index number
I4i10.1
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary index
IN259
Spahn & Hadamitzky Kanji Dictionary index
K436
Gakken Kanji Dictionary index
L737
Heisig index
MN10947
Morohasi index number
MP4.1123
Morohasi volume and page
N2829
Old Nelson index number
O2018
Miss-classification codes
P2-4-9
Halpern's SKIP pattern code
Q2024.7
Four Corner code
S13
Stroke count (total)
U611b
Unicode number
V1927
New Nelson index number
Wae
Korean reading romanization
Yai4
Chinese reading romanization
ZPP2-1-12 ZPP2-6-7
Miss-classification codes
アイ いと.しい T1 あ あし え かな まな めぐ めぐみ よし
readings
{love} {affection} {favourite}
English glosses
Entries from Jim Breen's EDICT follow. These are in no particular order.

  1. (vs) love
  2. しい
    いとしい
    lovely
  3. し子
    いとしご
    beloved dear child
  4. すべき
    すべき
    lovable
  5. する
    する
    to love
  6. でたい
    でたい
    auspicious
  7. でたし
    でたし
    wonderful
  8. でる
    でる
    to love; to admire
  9. に飢える
    にうえる
    to hunger (starve) for love
  10. の結晶
    のけっしょう
    fruit of love; children
  11. らしい
    らしい
    pretty; charming; lovely

  12. いく
    tender nurture

  13. いん
    usual drink

  14. えき
    genital secretions; sexual fluids; semen; cum
  15. 煙家
    えんか
    heavy smoker; habitual smoker

  16. ぎょう
    loving

  17. がん
    (vs) fond of

  18. Aihui (city in North-Eastern China on the border of Russia)

  19. きょう
    love for one's hometown
  20. 郷心
    きょうしん
    love of one's hometown

  21. ぎん
    favourite poem or song; lover of poetry & song

  22. きょう
    love and respect
  23. 敬のある
    きょうのある
    charming; attractive

  24. けん
    pet dog
  25. 犬家
    けんか
    lover of dogs

  26. patronage; favour

  27. protection; tender care

  28. こう
    (vs) love; adoration
  29. 好家
    こうか
    lover
  30. 好者
    こうしゃ
    enthusiast; fan; devotee; one who loves something

  31. こく
    patriotism
  32. 国者
    こくしゃ
    patriot
  33. 国主義
    こくしゅぎ
    patriotism
  34. 国心
    こくしん
    patriotism

  35. さい
    beloved wife

  36. beloved child

  37. しゅう
    attachment; covetous affection

  38. しゃ
    (one's) beloved car

  39. しょ
    book lover

  40. しょう
    fondness for singing
  41. 唱歌
    しょうか
    (one's) favourite song
  42. 唱曲
    しょうきょく
    favourite song

  43. しょう
    prostitute

  44. しょう
    pet name

  45. じょう
    beloved daughter

  46. じょう
    love; affection

  47. じん
    lover; mistress

  48. せき
    (vs) missing someone; loathing to part
  49. 染妙王
    ぜんみょうおう
    Ragaraja; Buddhist deity of love

  50. civility; courtesy; compliments; sociability; graces

  51. そう
    civility; courtesy; compliments; sociability; graces
  52. 想のいい
    そのいい
    affable; amiable; sociable; agreeable

  53. ぞう
    likes & dislikes

  54. にく
    likes & dislikes
  55. 憎併存
    ぞうへいそん
    ambivalence

  56. ぞう
    (a-no) treasured; cherished
  57. 蔵版
    ぞうばん
    favourite printing (edition)

  58. そく
    (your) beloved son; cute boy
  59. 他主義
    たしゅぎ
    altruism
  60. 知県
    ちけん
    prefecture in the Chuubu area

  61. じゃく
    attachment; love; covetous affection

  62. ちゃく
    attachment; love; covetous affection

  63. ちょう
    pet bird
  64. 弟子
    まなでし
    favorite pupil; teacher's pet

  65. どく
    reading with pleasure
  66. 読者
    どくしゃ
    subscriber; reader; admirer
  67. 読書
    どくしょ
    a favourite book

  68. びょう
    pet cat
  69. 猫家
    びょうか
    cat lover

  70. favourite horse
  71. 媛県
    えひめけん
    prefecture on the island of Shikoku

  72. (vs) caress; loving dearly

  73. love; attachment; adoration

  74. まなむすめ
    favourite daughter

  75. よう
    (a-no) (vs) favorite; habitual use

  76. よく
    passion; love; lust

  77. よく
    passion; love; lust

  78. きょう
    charm; attractiveness; courtesy

  79. しょう
    (vs) love of reading

  80. bequest; relic

  81. おん
    kindness & affection; love
  82. 加虐
    かぎゃく
    sadism

  83. わい
    (sl) pretty; cute; lovely; charming; dear; darling; pet

  84. かわゆい
    (sl) pretty; cute; lovely; charming; dear; darling; pet
  85. がる
    わいがる
    to love; to be affectionate
  86. らしい
    わいらしい
    lovely; sweet

  87. わい
    loveliness

  88. かつ
    (vs) giving something up reluctantly; omitting; leaving out; sparing

  89. きゅう
    (vs) courting
  90. 誇示
    きゅうこじ
    courtship display
  91. 兄弟
    きょうだい
    brotherly love

  92. けい
    respect & affection

  93. さい
    beloved

  94. affection; kindness; love

  95. taking care of oneself

  96. じゅう
    endearment

  97. じゅん
    pure love

  98. じょう
    affection; love

  99. しん
    (an) (vs) love and believe in; intimacy

  100. しん
    deep affection
  101. 人間
    にんげん
    human love
  102. 人類
    じんるい
    humanism; love for humanity

  103. じん
    benevolence; charity; love

  104. せい
    sexual love

  105. せつ
    deep love

  106. altruism
  107. ない
    わいない
    (uk) silly; foolish; absurd; childish

  108. でき
    (vs) doting
  109. 動物
    どうぶつ
    love for animals
  110. 同性
    どうせい
    homosexual love
  111. 同胞
    どうほう
    brotherly love

  112. ねつ
    (vs) love passionately; ardent love; devotion

  113. ねつしゃ
    person who is very fond of something

  114. はく
    charity; benevolence; philanthropy; (love for) humanity

  115. はく
    philanthropist
  116. 主義
    はくしゅぎ
    altruism

  117. そう
    unsociability; brusqueness; sullenness

  118. へん
    favoritism; partiality
  119. 母性
    ぼせい
    maternal love

  120. そう
    (an) unsociability; bluntness

  121. もう
    blind love

  122. ゆう
    fraternity; friendship
  123. 結婚
    ゆうけっこん
    companionate marriage

  124. れん
    love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections

  125. れんかん
    philosophy of love
  126. 関係
    れんかんけい
    love affair; love relationship
  127. 結婚
    れんけっこん
    love marriage
  128. 至上主義
    れんしじょうしゅぎ
    love for love's sake
  129. 遊戯
    れんゆうぎ
    trifling with love