Save Gender Feminine Usage Japanese Scripts 菜々芽, 七々女, etc.(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. NAH-NAH-ME [key] Meaning & History From Japanese 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens", 々, a phonetic character indicting a duplication of the beginning kanji combined with 芽 (me) meaning "bud, sprout, shoot". Other kanji combinations are possible.