運命

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 運命, read うんめい, is a noun for fate or destiny shaping a person's course.
• Basic usage: 運命を変える makes fate something altered; 運命に立ち向かう makes destiny an adversary confronted.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Fate as a course of life
  • 運命 is the larger course that a life or event is believed to follow. It may be accepted as inevitable, but it can also be described as something altered or confronted.