Hara-kiri

honorable suicide through self-disembowelment (ceremonial suicide practiced by the Japanese samurai when disgraced or under a death sentence)

"Hara-kiri" redirects here. For the 1962 film by Masaki Kobayashi, see Harakiri (film). For the French satirical journal, see Hara-Kiri (magazine). Seppuku (Japanese: 切腹, "belly-cutting") is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.Seppuku is also known as hara-kiri (腹切り, "cutting the belly") and is written with the same kanji as seppuku but in reverse order with an okurigana. In Japanese, hara-kiri is a colloquialism, seppuku being the more formal term.  Samurai (and modern adherents of bushido) would use seppuku, whereas ordinary Japanese (who in feudal times as well as today looked askance at the practice) would use hara-kiri. Hara-kiri is the more common term in English, where it is often mistakenly rendered "hari-kari."
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Noun
1. ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society
(synonym) harakiri, harikari
(hypernym) suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation
(classification) Japan, Nippon, Nihon

(n.)
Suicide, by slashing the abdomen, formerly practiced in Japan, and commanded by the government in the cases of disgraced officials; disembowelment; -- also written, but incorrectly, hari-kari.
  

hara-kiri /'hærə'kiri/ (hari-kari) /'hɑ:ri'kɑ:ri/
kari) /'hɑ:ri'kɑ:ri/ danh từ sự mổ bụng tự sát (Nhật-bản)
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