5 Must-Know Similar Looking Chinese Characters

So many Chinese characters look very similar. The natives are used to those confusing characters. For the foreign eyes, however, they can be easily confusing. Let’s learn a 5 similar looking and easily confused characters.

5 Must-Know Similar Looking Chinese Characters
5 Must-Know Similar Looking Chinese Characters.

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Here are the 5 similar looking characters we gonna learn:

米 来 采 菜 莱

Do you think they look similar? How many of these 5 characters you already know?

Don’t worry if you don’t know them. Let’s learn these Chinese characters!

Here are these five characters with pinyin and English.

  1. 米 (mǐ): Rice; meter (a unit of length)
  2. 来 (lái): Come; arrive
  3. 采 (cǎi): Pick; pluck
  4. 菜 (cài): Vegetable; greens
  5. 莱 (lái): Weed; pigweed; a surname
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If you don’t know these characters, make sure to learn them ASAP because these characters are some of the most frequently used Chinese characters.

Example Sentences

  • 我不喜欢吃米饭。
  • Wǒ bù xǐhuān chī mǐfàn.
  • I don’t like to eat rice.
  • 我马上过来。
  • Wǒ mǎshàng guòlái.
  • I will be right there.
  • 我喜欢吃素菜。
  • Wǒ xǐhuān chī sùcài.
  • I like to eat vegetarian food.
Vegetable dish
Vegetable dish (Su cai, 素菜).
  • 她给我采了一束鲜花。
  • Tā gěi wǒ cǎile yī shù xiānhuā.
  • She picked me a bunch of flowers.

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Chinese Words

  • 马上 (mǎ shàng): Soon
  • 米饭 (mǐ fàn): Rice
  • 素菜 (sù cài): Vegetable dish
  • 鲜花 (xiān huā): Fresh flower
  • 束 (shù): A measure word for bunch of flowers

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