harikariとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

harikari (uncountable)

1. An alternative spelling of hara-kiri, considered to be incorrect.

アナグラム

• hara-kiri, harakiri

別の表記

• harakiri
• hari-kari (一般的ではない用法)
• harikari (一般的ではない用法)
• harikiri

語源

From Japanese 腹切り (はらきり (harakiri)). From 腹 (“belly”) (はら (hara)) + 切る (“cut”) (きる (kiru)).

名詞

hara-kiri (uncountable)

1. Ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practised in Japan by members of the warrior class when disgraced or sentenced to death.
2. Suicide or any suicidal action.
3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (by extension, figuratively) An act against one's own interests.
   • 1982–1983, Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties,^[1] revised and printed as […] to the Nineties, HarperCollins (2001), ISBN 978-0-06-093550-4, page 393:

     Regarded logically, therefore, Japan’s decision to go to war made no sense. It was hara-kiri.

   • 1987, in The Economist, Volume 304, Issues 7505–7513,^[2] page 1:

     They are haunted by the spectre of the 1984 election, when Mr Walter Mondale committed hara-kiri by acknowledging the need to raise taxes if America were to get its economy straight.

   • 2008 April 5, Anurag Prasad, “Virgin Territory”, in Outlook Business, Volume 3, Number 7, page 50:

     But with GSM players lobbying hard for more spectrum, taking MVNOs on board now would be hara-kiri.

同意語

• (ceremonial suicide by ripping open the abdomen): seppuku

派生語

• commit hara-kiri
• political hara-kiri

参考

• bushido
• kamikaze
• seppuku
• suicide

アナグラム

• harikari, hari-kari