带常堂 Belt Often Great-Hall 鱼龟黾 蝇 fish frog toad fly (easily confused characters…)

常堂

belt often great-hall

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Belt and Often look similar but are different in sound and meaning. Belt has an image of the belt as three lines through one line on top. Beneath is 巾 jin cloth

In contrast “often” has the abbreviated form of shang 尚 on top as a sound clue.

Tang, hall, as in great hall, room, has the symbol for earth beneath the abbrievated form of shang 尚.

fish frog toad fly

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