いじる

いじる · ijiru · JLPT N1 · verb-godan

to tamper with

いじる (ijiru) sounds like 'easy-rue': touching or tampering with something is easy to do and hard to undo.

Ijiru means to fiddle with or tamper with something. The sound 'ee-ji-ru' can be remembered as 'easy-rue': it is easy to touch and tamper, and you may come to rue it.

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