玉砕

ぎょくさい
honourable defeat
honourable death

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ぎょくさい【玉砕】

¶ → 玉砕する

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ぎょくさい【玉砕】

death for honor.

～する die in honor; die [meet with] an honorable death; prefer death to dishonor; die but never surrender; fight until death.

玉砕攻撃 a banzai attack [charge].

玉砕主義 the principle of death and no surrender.