亚洲网紅露点

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seppuku

[ se-poo-koo ]

seppuku

/ 蝉蓻藞辫耻藧办耻藧 /

noun

  1. another word for hara-kiri
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of seppuku1

First recorded in 1900鈥05; from Japanese, earlier s(y)et-puku, from Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese 辩颈猫 鈥渃ut鈥 + 蹿霉 鈥渂别濒濒测鈥
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of seppuku1

from Japanese, from Chinese ch`ieh to cut + fu bowels
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As a result, I was more familiar with Mishima鈥檚 life 鈥 the turn to ultraright nationalism, the attempted coup and his ensuing death by seppuku 鈥 than with his art.

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So, I commit first-date seppuku and tell him about my lens and my vision loss.

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The rogue warrior whose forces he defeats calls for the young Toranaga himself to serve as his second in the ritual of seppuku.

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Mariko鈥檚 entire family was executed for it 鈥 by her father, who committed seppuku after being forced to carry out the act.

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He said such shame could only be washed away by committing seppuku - a form of suicide by disembowelment, also known as hara-kiri - at a meeting of the Japanese cabinet after Kishida's return.

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