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.

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255 twin pairs

99 character webs

65 same-level traps

171

171 pairs touch HSK 1–3

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Class BSame-level trap

gàngHSK 7–9

coffin-bearing pole (old); thick pole; bar; rod

杠铃gànglíng

barbell

gāngHSK 7–9

to raise aloft with both hands; (of two or more people) to carry sth t…

肩扛jiānkáng

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.