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

xīHSK 5

(bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night

除夕Chúxī

lunar New Year's Eve

dǎiHSK 7–9

bad; wicked

歹徒dǎitú

evildoer

The one-stroke difference:歹 is 夕 with one extra horizontal stroke at the top.