ためらい傷きず

noun

hesitation wound; hesitation mark

A scar left from a tentative, non-fatal self-inflicted cut, often on the wrist, indicating ambivalence about the suicide attempt.

• 彼かれの手て首くびには、若わかい頃ころのためらい傷きずが残のこっている。

  On his wrist remains a hesitation wound from his youth.

• ためらい傷きずは、自じ殺さつ未み遂すいの際さいに深ふかく切きれなかった痕こん跡せきだ。

  A hesitation wound is a mark left when the cut wasn't deep during a suicide attempt.