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say it: HAH-ri-kir-ee
hara-kiri is a noun meaning "ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society". It carries one recorded sense.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hara-kiri come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.