Okay, from my dictionary, I have several kanji that will work. (You do know kanij is Japanese, right?)

孑孑 (boufura or boufuri)
This word can mean “mosquito larva, wriggler, or maggot”, but it seems kind of vauge to me. Most people who can read it will think it’s the first meaning.

蛆虫 (ujimushi)
This word means ether “maggot, or abusive word.” The first kanij means “worm, grub, or maggot” while the second kanji means “insect”. (Although I’m not sure if it can mean”abusive word”, or if it’s used as one.)

蛆 (uji)
This kanij by itself just means “maggot, or grub” and if I was getting it in a tattoo, I would proboly pick this one.

But it all depends on what you want it to say. If you want it in a sentance, I think the second one would be better, but if it’s by itself, the third would be best. Although I’m still a student with a LOT to learn, I’d show someone else the kanji I just listed to make sure.

On a side note, why the hell do you want a tattoo that says “maggot” in Japanses? Just asking.

I think he took acting lessons from Gerard Way…

What I would do, although I haven’t got a tattoo yet, would be to wear long sleeves when going outside for the first month or so, then wear a high SPF sunscreen.

I’m sorry, but after looking through my dictionary for almost thirty minutes, I cannot figure out what that kanji is supposed to be. The way it’s written seems to suggest that the three on top are one kanji, but I can’t find any kanji that looks like that. I can tell you what each piece says though. The top left one, by it self reads “husband”, or more, the humble name a wife would call her husband. The one under it looks like “earth or soil” but the bottom part should be a straight line, and not the arrow shaped thing; and the kanji on the right means “circle, full (month), or perfection”, but the horizontal line should be cutting across the vertical one. The one on the bottom dose mean power. So, that’s really strange. Maybe it says “Husband with a circle of soil is power”; but like I said, the one on the top, being written the way it is suggest it’s one kanji. Maybe someone else here can help you.

Since no one answered your question, I will.

Hiragana is a basic, simplified Japanese script that came from simplifying Chinese characters into a syllabary. It’s used for word where there are no kanji, particles, and name suffixes. Such as を, a particle showing what part of the sentence the direct object is; or さん, which reads “san” as in 綾唯美さん, (Ayumi-san). They can also be used with kanji, like in the word 食べる (taberu) which is a verb meaning “to eat”.

Katakana is another syllabary. It’s shapes are even more simple than Hiragana. It’s used to write foreign words like パン (pan) which means bread. (I think it comes from the Portuguese word for bread.) or コンピューター (konpyuta) which means computer.

Kanji is used to write whole words, or ideas. There’s thousands of kanji, although only 1,945 are widely used. They also came from Chinese characters, but had little or no modification. Examples are: 車 (kuruma) car, 草(kusa) grass, and 紫 (murasaki) which is the color purple.

Hope I helped you, and if someone notices a mistake I made, please correct me.