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What are these two characters marked red? I'm trying to learn reading some kid
books, some Bonobono font chars meaning though is a mystery for me.

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manga](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OMCu9.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OMCu9.png)
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What are these two characters marked red? い＿める and いじめ＿いよォ?
> 「い **ぢ** める？」  
>  「いじめ **な** いよォ」

Note, the word is いじめる and is normally never spelled いぢめる. It seems spelling
it that way is a quirk of this character.

(Normally じ and ぢ would be pronounced the same (ji), but in this case it’s
possible the artist was going for something more ‘squirrel-like’ in
pronunciation, like an emphasized/partially-voiced ち.)
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To actually answer the question, the characters are な (na) and ぢ (pronounced
ji, but di in certain romanisations).

To address the meaning of what's being said, I understand that there is a
slight difference in the meaning of いじめる and いぢめる, both meaning to
bully/tease.

いぢめる has some sense of cuteness/playfulness about it: perhaps you're teasing
someone, but you don't really mean for your words to hurt them -- you might
use the kanji 苛める.

いじめる on the other hand has the true meaning of bullying about it: more hurtful
and unpleasant -- you might use the kanji 虐める.

Note, however, that the (strictly) correct 'spelling' of both of the above
verbs in modern Japanese is いじめる.

The use of ぢ in いぢめる is a historical spelling of the verb, before ぢ was
(largely) rationalised to じ in the 1946 script reforms. Both じ and ぢ are
pronounced the same, except for I think in certain dialects in Kyushu and
Shikoku.
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