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English noun: hara-kiri

1. hara-kiri (act) ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society


Synonymsharakiri, harikari, seppuku


Broader (hypernym)self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide


Domain regionJapan, Nihon, Nippon









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