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てんしょく
Meanings
Noun
1. vocation; lifework; calling
2. sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation)
3. prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)
Alt. forms
天てん職しょく
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てんしょく
Pitch accent
て
んしょく
Composed of
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
job; work; duties; trade; skill
Examples (1 in total)
He found that teaching was his calling.