How to pronounce “hara-kiri”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• Suicide or any suicidal action.
• (by extension, figuratively) An act against one's own interests.

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