宿命

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 宿命 is read as しゅくめい and is a noun for a fate or life condition regarded as predetermined and difficult to escape.
• Basic usage: Bearing such a fate appears in 宿命を背負う, while rejecting that classification appears in 宿命とは考えない.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Difference from 運命
  • 運命 broadly denotes fate or the course of life; 宿命 more strongly suggests inevitability fixed in advance.
• Function of とは
  • In 宿命とは考えない, とは frames destiny as the category being rejected, not the event itself.