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腹切り
1 English words descend from Japanese
腹切り
, most common first.
hara-kiri
Ceremonial suicide by disembowelment, as by slicing open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practised in Japan by the samurai when disgraced or sentenced to death.