自じ剄けい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

suicide by cutting one's throat

Rare literary term for suicide by slitting one's own throat. Cross-referenced with 自刎 (じふん), a more common synonym.

See also: 自刎

• 古こ文ぶん書しょには「自じ剄けい」という語ごが散さん見けんされる。

  The word 自剄 appears occasionally in old documents.

• 彼かれは自じ剄けいして果はてたと伝つたえられる。

  It is said that he died by cutting his own throat.