<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> show Transcriptions </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Romanization </Th> <Td> seppuku </Td> </Tr> <P> Seppuku (切腹, "cutting (the) belly"), sometimes referred to as harakiri (腹切り, "abdomen / belly cutting", a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment . It was originally reserved for samurai, but was also practiced by other Japanese people later on to restore honor for themselves or for their family . A samurai practice, seppuku was used either voluntarily by samurai to die with honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely suffer torture) or as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses, or performed because they had brought shame to themselves . The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the abdomen and drawing the blade from left to right, slicing the abdomen open . If the cut is performed deeply enough it can sever the descending aorta, causing massive blood loss inside the abdomen, which results in a rapid death by exsanguination . </P> <P> The term "seppuku" is derived from the two Sino - Japanese roots setsu 切 ("to cut", from Middle Chinese tset) and puku 腹 ("belly", from MC pjuwk). It is also known as harakiri (腹切り, "cutting the Stomach"); the term harakiri (often misspelled / mispronounced hiri - kiri or hari - kari by English speakers) is more familiar to non-Japanese speakers than the term seppuku . Harakiri is written with the same kanji as Seppuku, but in reverse order with an okurigana . In Japanese, the more formal seppuku, a Chinese on'yomi reading, is typically used in writing, while harakiri, a native kun'yomi reading, is used in speech . Ross notes, </P>

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