Save Gender Masculine Usage Japanese Scripts 正則, etc.(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. MAH-SAH-NO-ṘEE [key] Meaning & History From Japanese 正 (masa) meaning "first (month of the lunar year)" combined with 則 (nori) meaning "law". Other kanji combinations are possible.Famous bearer of this name is Japanese Olympic baseball player Masanori Sugiura.