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One Character Difference. Two Completely Different Companies.

Simplified/traditional pairs, homophone swaps, and single-stroke lookalikes — why the company you found in the registry is not always the company you were looking for.

August 17, 2026 |

深圳市华建科技有限公司 and 深圳市華建科技有限公司 are the same company. 深圳市华建科技有限公司 and 深圳市华健科技有限公司 are not — different owners, different registration, different city of record. One stroke separates them. Your search returned one of the two, and it did not tell you the other existed.

Below, we walk every collision class — traditional/simplified pairs, homophone substitutions, single-stroke lookalikes, and the registry behaviour that quietly hides a parent company one character away from the one you found.

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