Bash writing value to desired column of desired row?

Question

bash

Greetings, sorry for the stupid question, there is a piece of code:
awk 'NR == 2{print$2}'
Prints the 2nd column of the 2nd line. How and on what to do the reverse procedure, I need to write a value in, say, the 3rd column of the 3rd row, as far as I understand, AWK is only suitable for reading?
There is some text from the source data, with separators as spaces, you need to implement data transfer to different cells.

Answer 1

nick3ero thanks for the answer, but for some reason line wrapping doesn't work \n