剾痧

Chinese

		to scrape, to peel	acute illness
trad. (剾痧)		剾	痧
simp. (𠛅痧)		𠛅	痧
alternative forms		摳痧／抠痧

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khau-soa

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Sanxia, Magong, Taichung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khau-soa
    • Tâi-lô: khau-sua
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qausoaf
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kʰau⁴⁴⁻³³ sua⁴⁴/

Verb

剾痧

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien, traditional Chinese medicine) to practise gua sha, a treatment involving repeated pressured strokes over lubricated skin with a smooth edge in order to release blood stasis

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 刮痧 (“to practise gua sha”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		刮痧
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	刮痧
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	刮痧
	Wuhan	刮痧
	Guiyang	刮痧
	Liuzhou	刮痧
Gan	Nanchang	刮痧
	Pingxiang	刮痧
Huizhou	Jixi	刮痧
Southern Min	Xiamen	劌痧, 掠痧
	Quanzhou	劌痧
	Zhangzhou	劌痧, 掠痧
	Taipei	掠痧筋
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	剾痧
	Kaohsiung	挽筋, 掠痧筋
	Yilan	掠痧筋, 刮
	Changhua (Lukang)	掠痧筋, 刮
	Taichung	剾痧
	Tainan	挽筋, 掠痧筋, 刮
	Hsinchu	刮刮咧, 剾剾咧
	Penghu (Magong)	剾痧
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	刮痧
Wu	Shanghai	刮痧
	Shanghai (Chongming)	刮痧
	Suzhou	刮痧
	Danyang	刮痧
	Ningbo	刮痧
	Wenzhou	摳痧
	Jinhua	刮痧
Xiang	Loudi	刮痧