変へん成じょう男なん子しへんじょうなんしMeanings1nountransformation into a man; woman reborn as a manBuddhism›Buddhist doctrinal term: a woman being reborn as a man in order to attain Buddhahood, based on the idea that only men could become Buddhas in certain sutras. Rare outside Buddhist contexts.法ほ華け経きょうには、女
