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Why JLPT N2 learners mix up 別荘 (べっそう, “villa; vacation home; summer cottage”) and ブラシ (ブラシ, “brushy, brush”).
The kanji 別 contains the knife radical (刂). A student might confuse the meaning of this compound with other physical tools (like a brush) often found in radical-based vocabulary study guides.
On JLPT N2, this pair shows up as a vocabulary meaning question. You see one word and pick its English equivalent from four options — one of which will be the other word in this pair, chosen as a distractor precisely because of the overlap.
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