Save Gender Masculine Usage Japanese Scripts 健也, 毅也, 傑哉, 剛也, 丈也, 竹弥, 武也, etc.(Japanese Kanji) Pronounced Pron. TAH-KE-YAH [key] Meaning & History From Japanese 健 (take) meaning "healthy, strong" combined with 也 (ya) meaning "also". Other combinations of kanji characters are also possible. A famous bearer is Takeya Nakamura, a Japanese baseball player.