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Chinese has a lot of tricky ones.

荼 vs 茶

日 vs 曰

已 vs 己 vs 巳 vs 巴

士 vs 土

水 vs 氺

人 vs 入 vs 八 vs 几

干 vs 千 vs 于

天 vs 夫

... the list goes on.

Here's some more. I made these mistakes when typing using Pingtype, and then checking my results with my teacher.

給耠

辦辛力辛

重量

困因

痕㾗

眉㞒

部卶

蓑䒾

任仼

挑狣

推猚

䒷苦

阿冋

共芖

休你

衡𧗾

一 –

幹龫

幸辛

我找

As in homographs in other languages, context is often sufficient to disambiguate.

>> 荼 vs 茶

Also 苶 looks similar.