Save Gender Masculine Usage Japanese Scripts 楓也, 楓弥, 風哉, etc.(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. FUU:-YAH [key] Meaning & History From Japanese 楓 (fuu) meaning "maple" or 風 (fuu) meaning "wind" combined with 也 (ya) meaning "also", 弥 (ya) meaning "universally" or 哉 (ya), an exclamation. Other combinations of kanji are possible.