Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Transitive verb

    to finger; to play with; to fiddle with; to toy with

    Usually written using kana alone

    適材適所。あいつはコンピューターをいじくっていた方が生き生きしているよな。
    He's definitely the right guy for the job. Let him fiddle with a computer and he perks right up.
  2. to make changes to; to tinker with; to fiddle with; to tamper with

    Usually written using kana alone

  3. to dabble in; to do as a hobby; to play around with

    Usually written using kana alone

Also written 弄る【いじくる】

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Characters in this word

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play with, tamper, trifle with

Kun
いじく.るろう.するいじ.るひねく.るたわむ.れるもてあそ.ぶ
On
ロウ
Strokes
7
Taught
Junior high
Radical
two hands

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Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-4-3SKIP code
4f3.2The Kanji Dictionary
1044.1Four corner code
5f04Unicode hex code
1-47-14JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
2924Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1668New Nelson (John Haig)
3057Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2129Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2558Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
731Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
9596Morohashi
2004Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
nong4, long4Pinyin reading
rongKorean reading