The Japanese Radical: 愛


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love    愛

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT 3Joyo 4
love
AI
From top: hand reaching down 爫, cover 冖, heart 心, sitting cross-legged 夂 (or upturned foot)
A hand is reaching down to cover the heart of the cross-legged sitting person: This is love.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
gentle, superior, tender, graceful
yasashii, sugureru,
Left: person 亻, right: grief, sorrow 憂 (If you have (a variation of) love 愛 in your head 頁, then you have sorrow and perhaps grief.) [愛 = A hand reaching down 爫 to cover 冖 the heart 心 of the cross-legged 夂 sitting person: This is love.]
A person with a head with a kind of love is gentle.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
joy, congratulation, jubilation
KEI
广 鹿
Top: variation of deer 鹿 (originally a pictograph), below: var. of love 愛 [= A hand reaching down 爫 to cover 冖 the heart 心 of the cross-legged 夂 sitting person: That is love.]
Deer and love mean joy.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
grief, sorrow, trouble, fear
urei/eru, ui,
Variation of love 愛 (A hand reaching down 爫 to cover 冖 the heart 心 of the cross-legged 夂 person: This is love.) with head/forehead 頁 instead of a hand reaching downwards 爫
If there is incomplete love in your head, you are in grief & sorrow.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
not clear, vague, obscure
AI
Left: day/sun 日, right: love 愛 (A hand reaching down 爫 to cover 冖 the heart 心 and an upturned foot 夂: That is love)
In daylight love becomes unclear.  

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