If you go to make a comment in a thread and hit the thing to add smileys there's a tab that says "hit levels" and it gives H M L next to the symbols so you could like keep a separate window open minimized down to just that and have it open over the frame data page
That's how you type the code for the hit level icons but they only show in posts and private messages. I have some old reference material for you that should help too.
LoL.... Mr. Wah said something to me about the "Kanji" when I asked him about something one of the character's said. I assumed Kanji was Japanese for.... you know.... "Japanese". However that does seem to be the whole story.