Save Gender Feminine Usage Japanese Scripts 火乃子, 帆乃子, 保乃子, 保野子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. HO-NO-KO [key] Meaning & History From Japanese 火 (ho) meaning "fire", 乃 (no), a possessive particle and 子 (ko) meaning "child". Other combinations of kanji characters can also form this name.