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    3. 切腹

    切腹

    切せっ腹ぷく

    seppuku

    KMT10News #36+1Ref L2Noun, Participle, VerbHistoryKanji Vocab17 strokes

    せっぷく

    Noun, Participle, Verb

    1.
    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

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    侍さむらいは切せっ腹ぷくした。

    The samurai committed seppuku.

    KMT10History
    武ぶ士しにとって切せっ腹ぷくは名めい誉よある死しであった。

    For a samurai, seppuku was an honorable death.

    KMT10History
    江え戸ど時じ代だいには、切せっ腹ぷくは武ぶ士しの責せき任にんの取とり方かたの一ひとつとされていた。

    In the Edo period, seppuku was considered one way for samurai to take responsibility.

    KMT10History
    赤あ穂こう浪ろう士しの物ものが語たりには、切せっ腹ぷくの場ば面めんが描えがかれている。

    The story of the Akō Rōshi depicts a scene of seppuku.

    KMT10HistoryLiterature
    切せっ腹ぷくは、日に本ほんの歴れき史しにおいて特とく定ていの状じょう況きょう下かで行おこなわれた儀ぎ式しき的てきな行こう為いである。

    Seppuku is a ritualistic act performed under specific circumstances in Japanese history.

    KMT10HistoryCulture & Traditions

    Kanji that make up this word

    切
    き.る・-き.る・き.り・-き.り・-ぎ.り・き.れる…(9)
    cut・cutoff・be sharp
    腹
    はら…(1)
    abdomen・belly・stomach
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