Pressure point

For other uses, see Pressure point (disambiguation).

Pressure point (穴位)
Chinese name
Chinese	穴位
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin xuéwèi Bopomofo ㄒㄩㄝˊ ㄨㄟˋ Wade–Giles hsüeh-wei Wu Romanization yiuih入 we去 Hakka Romanization hied5 vi55 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping jyut6 wai6*2 Southern Min Hokkien POJ hia̍t-uī
Japanese name
Kanji	急所
Kana	きゅうしょ
Transcriptions Romanization kyūsho

Pressure points are areas of the human body that may produce significant pain or other effects when manipulated in a specific manner. They are related to the supposed meridian points in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Indian Ayurveda and Siddha medicine, and martial arts.