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 B

zhìHSK 4

to rule; to govern

治疗zhìliáo

to treat (an illness)

yěHSK 7–9

to smelt; to cast

陶冶táoyě

lit. to fire pots and smelt metal

The one-stroke difference:治's left radical 氵 has one extra dot compared with 冶's left radical 冫.