変遷へんせん Common Noun Irregular Intransitive English jmdict 1 noun (common) (futsuumeishi) noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru intransitive verb change;transition;vicissitudes 表面上、本書の大部分は一連の事例の変遷を記録したものである。 On the surface the book consists mostly of a series of case histories.