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 change or replace; to experience

更加gèngjiā

more (than sth else)

lìHSK 7–9

minor government official or functionary (old)

官吏guānlì

bureaucrat

The one-stroke difference:更 is 吏 with one extra horizontal stroke in the middle.