Save Gender Feminine Usage Japanese Scripts 菜採子, 菜摘子, etc.(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. NAH-TSUU-MEE-KO [key] Meaning & History From Japanese 菜 (na) meaning "vegetables, greens", 採 (tsumi) meaning "to gather, to collect, to take" or 摘 (tsumi) meaning "to pluck; to pick" combined with 子 (ko) meaning "child". Other kanji combinations are possible.