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For example, 未 and 末.

I tried looking for 同じ見える漢字 and 同見漢字 but they didn't seem to be correct or to
refer to what I'm looking for.
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kanji orthography reading-comprehension
Is there a name for kanji which look very similar?
One word that I've seen used some is 類似【るいじ】漢字【かんじ】. [Googling for this phrase
in
Japanese](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%E9%A1%9E%E4%BC%BC%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97%22+%22%E3%81%AF%22)
yields around 8.5K hits (adding "は" to the search string to filter
specifically for Japanese). The second hit in that list (for me, anyway) is
[this page](https://kanji-database.sourceforge.net/variants/similar-
chars.html) from a section of the SourceForge website, listing visually
similar characters. For some reason the Machigai-Sagashi website in
@[Angelos](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/9971/)'s comment isn't
loading for me, so apologies if this other site is a dupe or similar.
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Not exactly but [類字](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%A1%9E%E5%AD%97-660317) is a
close and established term for that and is found in dictionaries, although it
doesn't exclude non-kanji writing systems. In practice, 類字 is mostly applied
to kanji (and perhaps kana), like 同字 and 別字 are.
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