Save Gender Masculine Usage Japanese Scripts 文則, 文憲, 文範, etc.(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. FUU-MEE-NO-ṘEE [key] Meaning & History From Japanese 文 (fumi) "sentence" combined with 則 (nori) meaning "rule", 憲 (nori) meaning "constitution; basic law" or 範 (nori) meaning "boundary; rule; law". Other kanji combinations are also possible.