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The Hara or lower Dantian, as conceptualised by the Chinese and Japanese martial arts, is important for their practice, because it is seen, as the term "Sea of Qi" indicates, as the reservoir of vital or source energy (Yuan Qi). It is, in other words, the vital centre of the body as well as the centre of gravity.
Hara (written 原 or はら) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Hara Masatane (原 昌胤, 1531–1575), senior retainer of the Takeda clan during the late Sengoku period
In speaking of the lower of the three energy centers, the term dantian is often used interchangeably with the Japanese word hara (腹; Chinese: fù) which means simply "belly." In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese traditions, it is considered the physical center of gravity of the human body and is the seat of one's internal energy .
4640 Hara, a main-belt asteroid; Hara, the botanical author abbreviation of Japanese mycologist Kanesuke Hara; Hara, a fish genus in the order Siluriformes; Hara (given name) Hara (surname) Hara (tanden) (腹), a Japanese technical term used in medicine and martial arts referring to a specific place on or the whole of the lower abdomen
Hara hachi bun me (腹八分目) (also spelled hara hachi bu, and sometimes misspelled hari hachi bu) is a Confucian [1] teaching that instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full. [2] The Japanese phrase translates to "Eat until you are eight parts (out of ten) full", [ 2 ] or "belly 80 percent full". [ 3 ]
Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. So hara-kiri is a spoken term, but only to commoners and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act. [13]
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Neely O'Hara, character in Valley of the Dolls; Scarlett O'Hara, literary protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind; Scarlett (G.I. Joe), a female character whose actual name is Shana O'Hara; Dr Eleanor O'Hara, a female main character from American medical comedy-drama TV series Nurse Jackie, referred to mostly as just O'Hara