Although this is technically a perfect solution I now need some easy way to find the right symbols without getting a serious headache (did you see how many symbols they crammed into that font?)

Use Babelfish to translate your word into Japanese. Here's "love", for instance: "愛"

(You'll need to set your browser's "character encoding" to UTF-8 to see that character, probably.)

These ideographic characters usually mean the same in Japanese (Kanji) as they are in Chinese (Han), as the Japanese borrowed the whole system from the Chinese in the first place. (The pronunciations are typically different in the two languages though.)

Peter