7 strokes
Jouyou kanji
Taught in 11th grade

play with, tamper, trifle with

Kun'yomi
  • to finger
  • to play with ②to deride
  • to finger ②to make changes to ③to dabble in ④to tease
  • ひねく
  • たわむれる
  • to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.) ②to toy with (one's emotions, etc.) ③to do with something as one pleases ④to appreciate
On'yomi
  • ロウ

Main Radical

(KanXi) (Nelson)

Reading Commonality

ロウ 46.7%
ろうする 46.7%
もてあそ 4.6%
いじく 2.0%

Character Breakdown

play with, tamper, trifle with
ロウ ろう.する もてあそ.ぶ (11th)
king, rule, magnate
オウ -ノウ おお (1st, N3)
twenty, twenty or letter H radical (no. 55)
キョウ ク にじゅう (Kentei 1)

Contained In

Common Words

to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.) ②to toy with (one's emotions, etc.) ③to do with something as one pleases ④to appreciate
having at one's mercy
toying with ②making a plaything of (someone)
to play with ②to deride
gambling with hanafuda
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References

Unicode hex code 5F04
JIS X 0208 1-47-14
Nelson, A. Classic Nelson 2924
Haig, J. New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary 1668
Halpern, J. Kodansha Kanji Dictionary 3057
Halpern, J. Kanji Learners Dictionary (Kodansha), 2nd edition (2013) 2129
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji 2558
Heisig, J. Remembering The Kanji, Sixth Ed. 731
Morohashi Daikanwajiten 9596
Spahn and Hadamitzky Kanji and Kana (2011 edition) 2004
Tuttle Dictionary Descriptor Code 4f3.2
Four corner code 1044.1