gua sha

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gua sha

/ɡwɑ ˈʃɑ/

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Borrowed from Mandarin 刮痧 (guāshā, literally “scrape [away] illness”).

noun

uncountable A treatment used in traditional Chinese medicine involving repeated pressured strokes over the skin with a hard object thereby breaking surface capillaries and leaving light bruising, claimed to release unhealthy bodily matter. Looksmaxxing attaches "scores" to aspects of male appearance, focusing particularly on jawline, muscularity and skin. Looksmaxxers aim to increase their scores via "softmaxxing" (such as using a gua sha, burning more calories than consumed, or moisturising) and "hardmaxxing" (such as steroid use, ha

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noun treatment

日本語	刮痧 kassa
中文	刮痧 guāshā

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@misc{gua_sha_2026,
  title = {gua sha},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gua%20sha},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}