hara-kiri

• n. 切腹自尽，切腹自杀

来自日本汉语，hara,腹，kiri,切。

1. ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by warriors in the traditional Japanese society

hara-kiri

hara-kiri: [19] Hara-kiri is a Japanese form of ritual suicide, now little practised, involving disembowelment. The term, which means literally ‘belly-cutting’, is a relatively colloquial one in Japanese; the more dignified expression is seppuku, literally ‘cut open the stomach’.

hara-kiri (n.)

"suicide by disembowelment," 1856, from Japanese, literally "belly-cutting," the colloquial word for what is formally called seppuku "cut open the stomach;" from hara "belly" + kiri "to cut." Sometimes erroneously written hari-kari.