gua shaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Mandarin 刮痧 (guāshā, literally “scrape sand”).

発音

• IPA: /ɡwɑ ˈʃɑ/

名詞

gua sha (uncountable)

1. 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.
   • 2024 March 26, Riley Farrell, “Inside looksmaxxing, the extreme cosmetic social media trend”, in BBC‎, archived from the original on 23 April 2024:

     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, hair transplants, or cosmetic surgery).