Don't get carried away. What is the point of discussing this on THAT kinda level with someone whose current level of Japanese is the following? :)

Oh, I didn't look at it from this perspective. I was linguistically blinded lol :D

Now I understand what you mean ryuurui. I think almost all Kanji can be used as as standalone words/meanings words when it comes to poetry or art. I was just saying that I haven't seen it in an everyday context :)

Well, poetry is one example, but another is the jungle of 熟語. For instance the idiom 一労永逸. Since 永逸 is not a word, it means that 永 has a stand alone meaning as "eternity", although, to be more precise, in this case 永 stands for "a very long time". (一労永逸 could be roughly translated as "hardship will ensure extended benefit"). And I do know that many 熟語 were in fact classical poetry verses.

In the alternative, you could say the ４字熟語 is a single word expressing a very complex concept! :)

I suppose we could. I think this is why I find kanji so fascinating. You cannot simply define them, and there is always another layer hidden somewhere behind the strokes.

It's primarily hard because the concept of a "word" is pretty defined in English as something like "aggregation of pronounceable letters that contains no spaces." "Word" is a term for languages with spaces in it.

This is why linguists have terms like morpheme, grapheme, etc.