noun:

• United Nations Children's Fund (formerly Children's Emergency Fund); UNICEF

noun:

• one's true character; one's true self; oneself
• seriousness; earnestness

noun:

• story of one's experience; recounting of one's experiences; narrative; testimonial

expression / noun:

• wisdom of age; sagacity of one's years; old-man's wisdom

noun:

• exceeding one's authority; abusing one's legal authority; ultra vires activities - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• clear one's name; redeem oneself; clear (vindicate) one's honor (reputation) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• improvement in one's luck; changing one's luck ➜ 縁起直し

noun:

• articulation; speaking one's lines smoothly; reciting one's lines well

noun:

• sun of wisdom; Buddha's or Bodhisattva's limitless light of wisdom - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• putting one's affairs in order; ordering one's affairs; tidying up

noun:

• one's current family name; woman's family name after she married ➜ 旧姓【きゅうせい】

noun:

• National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China); NPC

noun:

• National People's Congress (of the People's Republic of China); NPC - abbreviation ➜ 全国人民代表大会

noun / ~する noun:

• setting the table; laying the table
• setting up; getting one's ducks in a row; running interference; setting the stage - idiom

noun:

• scriptures; sacred book; holy book; holy writings
• writings of a sage; sage's memoir

noun:

• castle and moat; castle's moat - obscure term
• City God (Taoist guardian god of a city)

noun / ~する noun:

• down (opposite of up); becoming lower; being brought down; bringing down
• being down (e.g. with a cold) and unable to continue (work)
• down (e.g. a system); not running (e.g. servers) - IT term
• download; downstream - abbreviation - IT term

noun:

• down (feathers)

noun:

• knee dislocation
• making somebody's knees bend (by hitting them behind the knees with one's own knees)

expression:

• those who wish to rule the land must first cultivate their own characters, then manage their families, then govern their states; only then can they bring peace to the land (a mantra of Confucianism) - proverb

noun:

• death with dignity; natural death (as opposed to extending one's life unnaturally with life support)

godan ~す verb:

• to use one thing for several purposes; to use the same thing on multiple occasions
• to work someone hard; to order around; to boss

interjection:

• heigh-hoh; heave-ho
• hold on!; just a minute
• used as a meaningless word in a song for rhythm

noun:

• pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa ➜ 寝殿造り・向拝

expression:

• avarice brings doom upon oneself; if a hawk-eagle tries to catch two boars at once, the boars will try to run in opposite directions, splitting the hawk-eagle into two and killing it - proverb

noun:

• shaking one's legs (usu. unconsciously); tapping one's foot; fidgeting (of the legs) ➜ 貧乏ゆすり
• very slight movement - as 貧乏揺るぎもしない - archaism ➜ 貧乏揺るぎもしない