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[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%84%9B#Japanese) says that's in
Japanese kanji "愛" means "love" and "affection" however after checking on a
[Translator](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E6%84%9B) in no case does
"愛" mean "affection". Supposedly [愛情 is
"affection"](https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/affection), the only
difference being "情" added on the end. After realizing this I decided to check
what "情" meant but I then found out that it also means
[affection](https://translate.google.com/#ja/en/%E6%83%85). How can a word
have more than 1 kanji and how can a kanji share words. Also what is the
correct kanji for "Affection"?
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Which of these means affection 愛情, 愛 or 情?
愛 is the "concept" of love. 愛情 is the physical emotion that humans feel. 「情」
be can added to other things in a similar way:

> [感情]{かんじょう} Emotion(s)
>
> [友情]{ゆうじょう} Friendship
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> [情熱]{じょうねつ} Passion (lit. "emotional heat")
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> （彼は）[情]{じょう}がない (He has) no compassion/sympathy for others.

See a pattern?

The broader issue for you here (which I've seen from some of your other posts
as well) is that it seems you want a clean one-to-one mapping between English
words and Japanese words/Kanji. It's very natural to want this, and we all
feel your pain. Unfortunately that's not the way it works.

Words are just labels for ideas/concepts we have in our heads. Some words
point to the same ideas, some single words point to multiple ideas. Sometimes
we don't have a label for a concept that exists in another culture, and vise
versa. It's something like this:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ijHVS.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ijHVS.png)

This is just how languages work. For now, just keep learning, and keep asking
questions.
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