Play word 変徴 変徴 へんち note a semitone below the fourth degree of the Chinese and Japanese pentatonic scale
Play word 本能寺の変 本能寺の変 ほんのうじのへん Honnōji Incident (forced suicide of daimyo Oda Nobunaga by his samurai general Akechi Mitsuhide; June 21, 1582)
Play word 味変 味変 あじへん changing the flavor of a dish in the middle of a meal by adding condiments, seasoning, etc.
Play word 明治十四年の政変 明治十四年の政変 めいじじゅうよねんのせいへん ousting of vice-minister Ōkuma Shigenobu and his supporters from the Meiji government (1881)