腹切り
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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腹 | 切 |
はら Grade: 6 |
き Grade: 2 |
kun’yomi |
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From 腹 (hara, “belly, bowels”) + 切る (kiru, “to cut”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- hara-kiri, self-disembowelment
Usage notes edit
- Harakiri, or 切腹 (seppuku), was the Samurai practice of committing honorable suicide in historic Japan, seen as a final deed to cleanse oneself of sins and remove shame. As a verbal suffix, 切る (kiru), otherwise meaning “to cut”, has the connotation of being thorough or decisive while performing an action, indicating the resolve of a Samurai in doing so.
Synonyms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: hara-kiri
- → Danish: harakiri
- → German: Harakiri
- → Russian: хараки́ри (xarakíri) (see there for further descendants)