hara-kiri的词源

英文词源

hara-kiri: hara-kiri: [19] Hara-kiri is a Japanese form of ritual suicide, now little practised, involving disembowelment. The term, which means literally ‘belly-cutting’, is a relatively colloquial one in Japanese; the more dignified expression is seppuku, literally ‘cut open the stomach’.
hara-kiri (n.): "suicide by disembowelment," 1856, from Japanese, literally "belly-cutting," the colloquial word for what is formally called seppuku "cut open the stomach;" from hara "belly" + kiri "to cut." Sometimes erroneously written hari-kari.

来自日本汉语，hara,腹，kiri,切。

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：hara-kiri 词源，hara-kiri 含义。

日语借用词，其中hara意为belly（腹），kiri意为to cut（切），其实即来自日语汉字“腹切”。这是日本人独有的自尽方式，过去常为武士和军国主义者所用，自杀时挖出内脏。但hara-kiri 一词日本人自己很少使用。