日孁

Etymology
. One theory is that me was specifically, referring to a who served the sun, but it eventually shifted to "goddess". Ru is possibly a variant of, an archaic genitive particle that predates , and it was no longer productive (like and ), but became fossilized (like ) in words like  and , and possibly also. The male equivalent of this name is possibly, a deformed child resulted from an improper courtship ritual between and  ( was used for females, as in ,  and ;  was used for males, as in ,  and ). However, his association with the sun was never clearly stated, and given his deformation, his name is usually interpreted as.