"ai" is both Mandarin Chinese and Japanese for "love". In Chinese it's both the noun and the verb.
The hanzi/kanji is almost the same, but Japanese uses the traditional form, whereas you may see the simplified in the PRC. A very, very beautiful character. Currently trendy on teenybopper/raver clothing, platform shoes, and so on. Unfortunately.

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