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Japanese and Chinese Stroke Order

The Stroke order article mentions differences between the stroke order of otherwise identical hanzi/kanji characters in China and Japan, and the CJK Stroke Order project on Wikimedia Commons has some examples. Is there anywhere I can find a more complete list of all the characters with different stroke orders in Simplified Chinese vs Japanese)? I'm specifically not interested in characters with different forms in the two languages (e.g. 门 vs 門), only characters that are the same Unicode character and only differ in their stroke order.

61.247.211.245 (talk) 09:26, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

personal description

i want to describe a person as a english work.so i want to about our all body parts for doing my work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.88.249.58 (talk) 12:26, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

The Human body article is probably a good place to start. Add adjectives like "large"/"big"/"small", "fat"/"thin", "wide"/"narrow", "straight"/"crooked". There are more descriptive adjectives that can be used such as: "fleshy", "strong", "muscular", "stocky" and so on. There are specific words used to describe hair colour. The style of clothing is also an important part of a description. Astronaut (talk) 12:32, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Looking for a general term for something that accepts a screw

What is a general term for something that receives a screw? Is there a word that's applicable

• whether the thing is fixed or movable
• regardless of the material it is made of, and
• regardless of whether the thing has a pre-drilled threaded hole or whether the screw creates the hole itself? --96.227.54.254 (talk) 13:35, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

An "anchor?" Could it be referred to as the anchoring material? "Mooring" is also a word conveying the notion of something to which an item is fastened. Bus stop (talk) 13:42, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

My Google search for screw hole reported 15,400,000 results.—Wavelength (talk) 20:01, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm sure it did, but how many of them are related to the question, and how many of them are Not Safe For Work? +Angr 20:32, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Searching for "screw hole" on the other hand returns 233,000 hits and presumably a better ratio of related ones. Even then, one of the top hits is still from the Free Medical Dictionary and presumably not what we are looking for. AJCham 20:50, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't work for things with no pre-drilled hole. If you have a block of wood just sitting there, invitingly, waiting to accept a screw, it can't be called a "screw hole". 213.122.5.169 (talk) 12:20, 7 July 2010 (UTC)