自じ戒かい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

self-admonition; self-caution; self-warning

Refers to warning or admonishing oneself, often to avoid repeating a mistake or to maintain discipline. Used both as a noun and in the suru-verb form 自戒する.

• 失しっ敗ぱいを自じ戒かいして、同おなじミスを繰くり返かえさないようにする。

  I take my failure as a self-admonition and try not to repeat the same mistake.

• 彼かれは自じ戒かいの念ねんを込こめて、その言こと葉ばを日にっ記きに書かいた。

  He wrote those words in his diary with a sense of self-caution.