- ishi suicide by hanging, hanging oneself
A formal, clinical term for hanging, found in news reports and legal or medical writing rather than in everyday speech.
警察は縊死と断定した。
Keisatsu wa ishi to dantei shita.
The police ruled it a hanging.
遺体の縊死の痕が確認された。
Itai no ishi no ato ga kakunin sareta.
Hanging marks on the body were confirmed.
⚖️ Often confused with 自殺 (jisatsu, suicide in general); 縊死 specifies the method.
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