天職 てんしょく
tenshoku

Noun

1. vocation; lifework; calling

かれ おしえることが かれ天職 てんしょくであることに きずいづいた。
karewa oshieru kotoga kareno tenshokudearu kotoni kizuita.
He found that teaching was his calling.
Noun

2. sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation)

Noun

3. prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)

Related to 天神