むらはちぶ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of むらはちぶ – see the following entry.

【村八分】 [noun] ostracism; a type of extra-judicial social exclusion practiced in Japan where a villager disturbing the peace of a village is shunned by the rest of them

(This term, むらはちぶ (murahachibu), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)