腹切り

• 腹切

From 腹(はら) (hara, “belly, bowels”) + 切(き)る (kiru, “to cut”).

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) はらきり [hàrákírí] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɾa̠kʲiɾʲi]

腹(はら)切(き)り • (harakiri) 

1. hara-kiri, self-disembowelment

• Harakiri, or 切腹(せっぷく) (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(き)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.

• 切腹(せっぷく) (seppuku)
• 割腹(かっぷく) (kappuku)
• 自刃(じじん) (jijin)

• → Danish: harakiri
• → English: hara-kiri
• → Russian: хараки́ри (xarakíri) (see there for further descendants)