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7 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society
originBorrowed from Japanese 切腹 (seppuku), from Middle Chinese 切 (t͡set, “to cut”) + 腹 (pjuwk, “belly”). Compare Cantonese 切腹 (cit³ fuk¹) and Mandarin 切腹 (qiēfù).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0