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 character webs

65 same-level traps

171

171 pairs touch HSK 1–3

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Class B

to stretch; to extend

延伸yánshēn

to extend

zhòngHSK 7–9

second month of a season; middle

仲裁zhòngcái

arbitration

The one-stroke difference:伸 contains 申 where 仲 contains 中 — 申 has one extra horizontal stroke inside the box.