Save Gender Masculine Usage Japanese Scripts 文多, 文太, etc.(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. BUUN-TAH [key] Meaning & History From Japanese 文 (bun) meaning "sentence" combined with 太 (ta) meaning "thick, big". Other kanji combinations are possible. A famous bearer was actor Bunta Sugawara (1933-2014), who appeared in almost 200 feature films.