Seppuku
Ritual Suicide
noun, verbal noun
When you cut your abdomen you are committing seppuku. It will help if you already know the word "seppuku" from English, since it's also the reading here.
切腹 is a form of ritual suicide by self-inflicted disembowelment, often performed by samurai to restore honor.
This is a jukugo word that uses the on'yomi readings of the kanji. But it's got shortening and rendaku going on, so you have to remember those if you want to get it right. Or just know the word seppuku already since it's pretty popular. That works too.
切腹とか考えるだけで痛いよね。
It hurts just to think about seppuku, doesn’t it?
どうして日本の武士は切腹をするようになったのでしょうか？
How did Japanese samurai warriors come to commit seppuku?
昨日、サムライになって切腹する夢を見た。
Yesterday, I dreamed that I became a samurai and committed ritual suicide.
その年老いた武士は、切腹をすることに固執した。
The old samurai insisted on committing ritual suicide.