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Hanzi is the name for the traditional Chinese characters used in the official written language of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau and Chinese communities out of China.
There are about 47,000 Hanzi characters, but many of them are unused. To be fully literate, you need to know about 4000 of these Chinese characters. Most Chinese words are written with multiple characters, one for each syllable.
Besides traditional Chinese there is also Simplified Chinese, an attempt to increase literacy in China. Simplified Chinese characters have less number of strokes than traditional Chinese. They are used in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore.
Here's an example, on the left (in black) is the traditional Chinese character for "Chinese", next to it (in red) is the simplified character:


Here are the most popular Chinese symbols used as a tattoo and their meaning:

Chinese symbol for love: Chinese symbol for strength: Chinese symbol for peace: Chinese symbol for family : Chinese symbol for courage: Chinese symbol for dragon: Chinese symbol for friendship:

Chinese symbol for faith: Chinese symbol for hope: Chinese symbol for sister: Chinese symbol for zen: Chinese symbol for water: Chinese symbol for happiness: Chinese symbol for angel:

If you can't find the word you are looking for, don't worry, we can do a Chinese translation for you. It's also possible to transliterate names into Chinese symbols.
Kanji is the Japanese word for "Han characters" and are Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system. Kanji are simplified traditional Chinese characters, but most of them have different simplifications than simplified Chinese. There are about 50,000 kanji characters.
Kanji are popular tattoo designs, not in China or Japan though, only in the West.