Funny stuff about similar hanzi

8/14/2021

Stumbled into this today, funny and perhaps a unnecessarily intimidating:

Breaking up some the characters pair here:

()
clothes
(nóng)
agricultural-
(wèi)
not yet, did not
()
tip, end
()
earth, dirt, clay
(shì)
e.g. specialist profession (护士) nurse

One that I didn't recognize at all is

(jié)
solitary
but the pair I find the hardest is
洒酒(sǎ jiǔ)
to sprinkle - alcohol
Another nasty one is
日曰(rì yuè)
sun, day - to read
but like many of these pairs are hard to mix up in real life as the other one is far more common and the contexts are quite different.