語感 Dictionary

切腹

せっぷく

seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)

Common word

Meanings

  1. Noun, Suru verb

    seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment
  2. seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)historical term