だいふけい

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of だいふけい – see the following entry.
大不敬
[noun] great disrespect, especially towards the Imperial family
[noun] (archaic, law) actions disrespectful towards important shrines or the Imperial family, such as theft or destruction; one of the eight unpardonable crimes under the Ritsuryō system.
(This term, だいふけい (daifukei), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)