粵

刮gwaat3痧saa1

gwaat3 saa1guā shā

English

  1. gua sha (technique in TCM)
  2. (Chinese medicine) scrape therapy, to shave certain parts of the body to obtain relief from nausea or sunstroke

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 一種中醫療法,用硬物如硬幣刮某啲經絡穴位,達到活血疏通、消除疲勞效果

Examples

  • 想揾個仙刮痧都冇。

    Can't even find a five cent coin for scrape therapy.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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