Class B
The one-stroke difference:半 is 牛 with one extra dot at the top.
Visual Confusion Mastery
Twin Characters雙生字
The most confusable look-alike characters in Mandarin — every pair below differs by at most one stroke.
255
255 twin pairs
99
99 character webs
65
65 same-level traps
171
171 pairs touch HSK 1–3
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Class B
The one-stroke difference:半 is 斗 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:半 is 午 with one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:羊 is 半 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The first stroke is a dot in 半 and a full horizontal in 平.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The second stroke of 车 folds diagonally （撇折） where 丰 has a plain horizontal.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:干 is 十 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The first stroke is a left-fall in 千 and a full-width horizontal in 干; the other two strokes are the same.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The vertical stroke ends in a hook （竖钩） in 于 and is a plain straight vertical in 干.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:王 is 干 with one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The middle stroke bends downward （横折） in 亏 and runs straight （横） in 干.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:午 is 干 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:丰 is 干 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:工 is 二 with a vertical stroke added through the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:王 is 工 with one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The middle stroke is a vertical in 工 and a horizontal in 三.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:In 土 the bottom horizontal is longer than the top one; in 工 the two horizontals are equal.
Class ASame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:上 has a short top horizontal and a long bottom one; in 工 the two horizontals are equal.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:开 is 千 with one extra left-fall at the lower left.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:In 升 the lower left-fall is short and the vertical drops well below it; in 开 the left-fall is long and reaches the bottom line.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The first stroke is a horizontal in 井 and a left-fall in 开.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The second stroke is a plain vertical in 十 and bends into a hook at the bottom （竖弯钩） in 七.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:上 and 土 look alike, but in 上 the vertical meets the top horizontal without poking above it, while in 土 the vertical rises slightly above the shorter top horizontal.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:The top horizontal is longer in 士 and the bottom one shorter; in 上 it is the bottom horizontal that is longer.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:千 is 十 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:士 is 十 with one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:土 is 十 with one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:手 is 于 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:三 is 二 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:王 is 三 with a vertical stroke running through all three horizontals.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The middle stroke is a horizontal in 三 and a vertical piercing both lines in 土.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:午 is 千 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:In 牛 the vertical stroke pokes above the top horizontal; in 午 the vertical starts at the top horizontal and it is the left-fall that pokes above.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:习 has one extra left-fall inside compared with 刁.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:习 is 乃 with one extra rising stroke at the bottom.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:正 is 止 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:升 is 千 with one extra left-fall at the lower left.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:牛 is 千 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:万 is 丁 with an extra left-fall that cuts across the hook.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:万 is 刀 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:In 刀 the left-fall cuts through the top of the hooked stroke; in 乃 it starts below that fold.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:In 刀 the left-fall starts above the fold of the hooked stroke; in 力 it starts halfway down the hook.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:牛's first stroke is a left-fall above the top line; 丰's first stroke is a plain horizontal.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:王 is 土 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:止 has one extra short vertical stroke inside, at the right, compared with 土.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:The top horizontal is longer in 士; in 土 the bottom horizontal is longer.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:王 is 士 with one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:玉 is 王 with one extra dot at the upper right.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:于 is 丁 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The second stroke falls to the left （撇） in 乃 and sweeps upward （提） in 刁.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:In 由 the vertical stroke pokes up above the box; in 白 that stroke is replaced by a left-fall sitting on top of the box.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:自 is 白 with one extra horizontal stroke inside the box.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:百 is 白 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:曰 is 口 with one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:日 is 口 with one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:曰 is wider and flatter; 日 is taller and narrower — the same box drawn to different proportions.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:目 is 日 with one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:田 is 日 with one extra vertical stroke through the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:旧 is 日 with a vertical stroke added at the left.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:目 is 曰 with one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:旧 is 曰 with a vertical stroke added at the left.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:In 由 the middle vertical pokes above the top of the box; in 田 it stops at the top line.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:田 is 曰 with one extra vertical stroke through the middle.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:贝's frame folds straight down and the character ends in a dot; in 见 the second stroke sweeps out into a left-fall and the character ends in a long hooked leg.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:申 is 中 with one extra horizontal stroke inside the box.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:中 has one extra horizontal stroke closing the middle of the box; 巾's frame is open in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:币 is 巾 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:八's two strokes start apart and never meet; 入's left-fall is longer and crosses over the right stroke.
Class ASame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:人 and 八 use the same two strokes, but in 人 they meet at the top, while in 八 they start apart and never touch.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:本 is 木 with one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:Both are 木 plus one horizontal: in 末 the extra horizontal sits at the top, in 本 at the bottom.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:Both are 木 plus one horizontal: in 未 the extra horizontal sits at the top, in 本 at the bottom.
Class B
dàHSK 1
big; large; great; older (than another person)
大学
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism
The one-stroke difference:犬 is 大 with one extra dot at the top right.
Class BSame-level trap
dàHSK 1
big; large; great; older (than another person)
大学
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism
The one-stroke difference:太 is 大 with one extra dot below the horizontal.
Class BSame-level trap
dàHSK 1
big; large; great; older (than another person)
大学
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism
The one-stroke difference:大 is 人 with a horizontal stroke through the middle.
Class BSame-level trap
dàHSK 1
big; large; great; older (than another person)
大学
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism
The one-stroke difference:天 is 大 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class B
dàHSK 1
big; large; great; older (than another person)
大学
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism
The one-stroke difference:夫 is 大 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class A
dàHSK 1
big; large; great; older (than another person)
大学
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism
The one-stroke difference:丈 and 大 share a horizontal and a crossing pair of strokes, but in 丈 the left-fall is short and starts at the top line, while in 大 the two strokes cross symmetrically in the middle.
Class B
dàHSK 1
big; large; great; older (than another person)
大学
the Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四书 in Confucianism
The one-stroke difference:文 is 大 with one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:关 is 矢 with one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:及 is 人 with one extra folded stroke (the big horizontal-folded left-fall) added in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:丈 is 人 with a horizontal stroke added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:久 is 人 with one extra folded stroke in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:义 is 人 with one extra dot at the top.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:In 人 the two strokes meet at the top and the right stroke is the longer one; in 入 the left stroke is longer and crosses over the right stroke.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The last stroke of 无 is a vertical hook bending left at the bottom; in 天 it is a full right-falling stroke （捺).
Class B
The one-stroke difference:天 is 丈 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The top-right stroke is a full horizontal in 天 and shrinks to a dot in 犬.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:The top horizontal is longer in 夫; in 天 the lower horizontal is longer.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:矢 is 天 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:未 is 天 with a vertical stroke through the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:末 is 天 with a vertical stroke through the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:太 is 丈 with one extra dot.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:太 replaces the second horizontal of 夫 with a dot below the crossing.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:太 and 犬 differ only in where the dot sits: low, under the crossing, in 太; high at the top right in 犬.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:The top horizontal is longer in 无; in 元 it is shorter and the left-fall drops from its left end.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:叉 is 又 with one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:义 is 又 with one extra dot at the top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:父 is 义 with one extra left-fall.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:失 has a short extra left-fall poking above the top horizontal; 夫 has none.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:夫 is 丈 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:矢 is 夫 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:未 is 夫 with a vertical stroke through the middle.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:犬 replaces the second horizontal of 夫 with a dot at the top right.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:末 is 夫 with a vertical stroke through the middle.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The last stroke is a vertical hook in 无 and a right-falling 捺 in 夫.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:龙 is 尤 with one extra left-fall at the top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:术 is 木 with one extra dot at the top right.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:禾 is 木 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:末 is 木 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:未 is 木 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:The short extra stroke sits at the top left as a left-fall in 禾; in 术 it sits at the top right as a dot.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The second stroke is a full horizontal in 未 and shrinks to a dot at the top right in 术.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The second stroke is a full horizontal in 末 and shrinks to a dot at the top right in 术.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:失 has a short left-fall poking above the top horizontal; in 矢 the long left-fall starts at the top horizontal itself.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:朱 has a central vertical stroke that 失 lacks.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:In 义 the dot is struck through by the left-fall; in 叉 the dot floats clear above the crossing of the two strokes.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:文 is 义 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:The top horizontal is longer in 末; in 未 the bottom horizontal is longer.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:朱 has a short left-fall poking above the top horizontal; 末 has none — its top stroke is the long horizontal itself.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:末's first stroke is a horizontal; 禾's first stroke is a left-fall above the horizontal.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:文 is 丈 with one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:犬 is 丈 with one extra dot.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The third stroke is a right-falling 捺 in 犬 and a vertical hook in 尤.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:未's first stroke is a horizontal; 禾's first stroke is a left-fall above the horizontal.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:朱 is 矢 with a vertical stroke through the middle.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:朱 is 未 with a vertical stroke through the middle.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:北 is 比 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:丛 is 从 with one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:果's top is 日 — 口 with one extra horizontal inside — where 呆 has plain 口 on top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:丢 has one extra left-fall at the top compared with 去.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:凡 is 几 with one extra dot inside the hook.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The hooked second stroke of 几 starts with a horizontal segment and drops lower; 儿's second stroke is a plain vertical hook.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:丸 is 几 with one extra dot.
Class ASame-level trap
jǐuHSK 1
nine; 9
九价
(medicine) 9-valent HPV vaccine; Gardasil 9 (abbr. for 九價HPV疫苗|九价HPV疫苗[jiu3 jia4 HPV yi4 miao2])
The one-stroke difference:The hooked second stroke is longer and drops lower in 几 than in 九.
Class B
jǐuHSK 1
nine; 9
九价
(medicine) 9-valent HPV vaccine; Gardasil 9 (abbr. for 九價HPV疫苗|九价HPV疫苗[jiu3 jia4 HPV yi4 miao2])
The one-stroke difference:丸 is 九 with one extra dot.
Class B
jǐuHSK 1
nine; 9
九价
(medicine) 9-valent HPV vaccine; Gardasil 9 (abbr. for 九價HPV疫苗|九价HPV疫苗[jiu3 jia4 HPV yi4 miao2])
The one-stroke difference:凡 is 九 with one extra dot.
Class CSame-level trap
jǐuHSK 1
nine; 9
九价
(medicine) 9-valent HPV vaccine; Gardasil 9 (abbr. for 九價HPV疫苗|九价HPV疫苗[jiu3 jia4 HPV yi4 miao2])
The one-stroke difference:The second stroke of 九 begins with a horizontal segment before hooking down; 儿's second stroke is a plain vertical hook.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:凤 and 风 share the same frame; inside it, 凤 has a 又-shaped pair of strokes while 风 has an 乂-shaped pair — the inner strokes differ in shape.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:旱 contains 干 where 早 contains 十 — 干 has one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:后 is 右 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:后 is 石 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:间 contains 日 where 问 contains 口 — 日 has one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 楼 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 搂 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:妹 contains 未 where 妖 contains 天 — 未 has a vertical stroke through the middle that 天 lacks.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:住 contains 主 where 任 contains 王 — 主 has one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The left radical of 往 （彳） has one extra left-fall compared with the left radical of 住 （亻).
Class B
The one-stroke difference:师 is 帅 with one extra short horizontal stroke at the very top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:体 contains 本 where 休 contains 木 — 本 has one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:用 is 月 with one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class ASame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:左's bottom component is 工 and 在's is 土 — the same length difference as 工/土: equal horizontals in 工, a longer bottom horizontal in 土.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:伴 contains 半 where 件 contains 牛 — 半 has one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:斥 is 斤 with one extra dot at the top right.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:化 has one extra left-fall on the right side compared with 亿 (whose right side is the single stroke 乙).
Class B
The one-stroke difference:仇's right side 九 has one extra left-fall compared with 亿's right side 乙.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:才 ends in a left-fall; 寸 ends in a dot instead — the rest of the two characters is identical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:鸟 is 乌 with one extra horizontal stroke near the bottom.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:更 is 吏 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:吏 is 史 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class A
The one-stroke difference:In 史 the left-fall starts from the top horizontal itself; in 央 it starts from the left wall of the box, lower down.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:旬 contains 日 where 句 contains 口 — 日 has one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:司 begins with a flat top stroke and its 口 sits at the lower left; 句 begins with a left-fall and its 口 sits lower-right — the frame is the same, the first stroke differs.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:睛 contains 目 where 晴 contains 日 — 目 has one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:In 已 the last vertical stroke rises above the top line, half-closing the box; in 己 it stops at the top line, leaving it open.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:酒's right side is 酉 — 西 with one extra horizontal inside — where 洒 has plain 西.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:昧's left side is 日 — 口 with one extra horizontal inside — where 味 has plain 口.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:气 is 乞 with one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:宣 has one extra horizontal stroke in the middle box compared with 宜.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:必 is 心 with one extra left-fall piercing through the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 板 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 扳 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 柏 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 拍 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:拍 contains 白 where 抽 contains 由 — in 由 the vertical pokes above the box, in 白 a left-fall sits on top of the box.
Class B
bǐngHSK 7–9
third of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; third in order
丙午
forty-third year C7 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1966 or 2026
The one-stroke difference:丙 has one extra horizontal stroke at the top that 内 lacks.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:闪 is 内 with one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:广 is 厂 with one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:户 is 尸 with one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:户 is 广 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The right side is 才 in 材 and 寸 in 村: 寸 ends in a dot where 才 ends in a left-fall.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:仗's right side 丈 has one extra left-fall compared with 仅's right side 又.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:仪 contains 义 where 仅 contains 又 — 义 has one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:拢 contains 龙 where 扰 contains 尤 — 龙 has one extra left-fall at the top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:犹's right side carries one extra dot compared with 扰's right side 尤.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:犹's right side carries one extra dot compared with 优's right side 尤.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:伏 contains 犬 where 仗 contains 丈 — 犬 has one extra dot.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:优's right side is 尤 and 伏's right side is 犬: the third stroke is a right-falling 捺 in 犬 and a vertical hook in 尤.
Class B
guìHSK 7–9
abbr. for Guangxi Autonomous Region 廣西壯族自治區|广西壮族自治区[Guang3 xi1 Zhuang4…
桂花
osmanthus flowers
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 桂 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 挂 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:活 contains 舌 where 沽 contains 古 — 舌 has one extra left-fall at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:舌 is 古 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:吉 contains 士 where 古 contains 十 — one extra horizontal stroke at the top of the box.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:灭 is 火 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 枝 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 技 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:季's top component 禾 is 木 with an extra left-fall, where 李 has plain 木 on top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:民 is 氏 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:The last stroke is a long vertical hook in 匹 and a short dot in 区.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:兵 has one extra long left-fall at the lower left; the bottom of 乓 is a plain horizontal.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:兵 has one extra long left-fall at the lower left compared with 乒.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The first stroke is a left-fall in 乒 and a flat horizontal in 乓; every other stroke is the same.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 析 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 折 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:拆 contains 斥 where 折 contains 斤 — 斥 has one extra dot.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:迫 contains 白 where 迪 contains 由 — in 由 the vertical pokes above the box, in 白 a left-fall sits on top of the box.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:敌 contains 舌 where 故 contains 古 — 舌 has one extra left-fall at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:汪 contains 王 where 江 contains 工 — 王 has one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class BSame-level trap
zhùHSK 7–9
to annotate; to provide explanatory notes on a written text; an annota…
注意
to take note of; to pay attention to
The one-stroke difference:注 contains 主 where 汪 contains 王 — 主 has one extra dot at the top.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:苦's lower component is 古 and 若's is 右: in 右 the second stroke is a left-fall starting above the top line; in 古 it is a vertical starting at the top line.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 模 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 摸 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:宇's lower component is 于 where 宁's is 丁 — 于 has one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:扔's right side is 乃 and 切's is 刀: in 刀 the left-fall cuts through the top of the hook; in 乃 it starts below the fold.
Class B
qiǎnHSK 7–9
(bound form) to dispatch; to send; (bound form) to drive away; to disp…
派遣
to send (on a mission); to dispatch
The one-stroke difference:遣 has one extra dot at the upper left of its inner component compared with 遗.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:亚 is 业 with one extra horizontal stroke at the very bottom.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:治's left radical 氵 has one extra dot compared with 冶's left radical 冫.
Class B
pěngHSK 7–9
to hold or offer with both hands; to sing the praises of
捧场
to cheer on (originally esp. as paid stooge)
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 棒 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 捧 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:拨's right side 发 has one extra left-fall at the top compared with 拔's right side 犮.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The left radical of 待 （彳） has one extra left-fall compared with the left radical of 侍 （亻).
Class B
The one-stroke difference:且 is 旦 with one extra horizontal stroke inside the box.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 档 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 挡 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class BSame-level trap
qiānHSK 5
to sign one's name; to write brief comments on a document
签名
to sign (one's name with a pen etc)
The one-stroke difference:答's lower component is 合, which has one extra horizontal between the 人 and the 口； 签 puts the 口 directly under the 人.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:歹 is 夕 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:乏 is 之 with a left-fall added at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:扶 contains 夫 where 托 contains 乇 — 夫 has one extra horizontal stroke.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:抹 contains 未 where 扶 contains 夫 — 未 has a vertical stroke through the middle that 夫 lacks.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 柜 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 拒 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class C
The one-stroke difference:估's right side is 古 and 佑's is 右: in 右 the second stroke is a left-fall starting above the top line; in 古 it is a vertical starting at the top line.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:汗 contains 干 where 汁 contains 十 — 干 has one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:竟 contains 日 where 竞 contains 口 — 日 has one extra horizontal stroke inside.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:兔 has one extra dot at the top right of its inner frame; 免 has none.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:矛 has one extra horizontal stroke in the middle compared with 予.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:奈's top is 大 — 人 with a horizontal through the middle — where 余 has plain 人 on top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 枪 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 抢 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:议 contains 义 where 认 contains 人 — 义 has one extra dot at the top.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:The left side of 稍 is 禾 — 木 with an extra left-fall — where 梢 has plain 木.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 梢 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 捎 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:伸 contains 申 where 仲 contains 中 — 申 has one extra horizontal stroke inside the box.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:柱 contains 主 where 枉 contains 王 — 主 has one extra dot at the top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:枉 contains 王 where 杜 contains 土 — 王 has one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:枉 contains 王 where 杠 contains 工 — 王 has one extra horizontal stroke at the bottom.
Class BSame-level trap
gāngHSK 7–9
to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth t…
肩扛
to carry on the shoulder
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 杠 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 扛 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:护 contains 户 where 扩 contains 广 — 户 has one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:讯's right side 卂 carries a small cross inside its frame; 讥's right side 几 is a plain empty hook.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The left side of 理 is 王 — 土 with one extra horizontal — where 埋 has plain 土.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:杖's right side 丈 has one extra left-fall compared with 权's right side 又.
Class B
The one-stroke difference:因 is 囚 with a horizontal stroke through the middle (its inner part is 大, not 人).
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:匆 has one extra left-fall inside the hook compared with 勿.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:匆 has one extra left-fall inside the hook compared with 勾.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The third stroke folds down-left （撇折） in 勾 and runs flat （横） in 匀.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:吁 contains 于 where 叮 contains 丁 — 于 has one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:玫's left side is 王 — 工 with one extra horizontal — where 攻 has plain 工.
Class CSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:钩's right side is 勾 and 钧's is 匀: the middle stroke folds down-left in 勾 and runs flat in 匀.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:迈 contains 万 where 辽 contains 力 — 万 has one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 栏 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 拦 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class BSame-level trap
míngHSK 7–9
to cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound
共鸣
(physics) to resonate; resonance
The one-stroke difference:鸣 contains 鸟 where 呜 contains 乌 — 鸟 has one extra horizontal stroke near the bottom.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:沫 contains 未 where 沐 contains 木 — 未 has one extra horizontal stroke at the top.
Class ASame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:牡's bottom component is 土 and 壮's is 士 — the same length swap as 土/士: the longer horizontal is at the bottom in 土, at the top in 士.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:衰 has one extra horizontal stroke in the middle compared with 哀.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 栓 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 拴 lacks in its 扌 radical.
Class BSame-level trap
The one-stroke difference:The characters are identical apart from the left-hand radical: 杨 has 木, whose extra horizontal stroke 扬 lacks in its 扌 radical.