Word details
切腹
Meanings, readings, and example sentences for the Japanese word 切腹.
Dictionary
Entry
1
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment
2
Historical term
seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
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