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Typographical symbol (@)

The
at sign,

@
, is usually read aloud as “at”; information technology is also commonly called the
at symbol,
commercial at, or
address sign. It is used equally an
bookkeeping
and
invoice
abridgement pregnant “at a rate of” (east.g. vii
widgets
@
£2 per widget = £fourteen),
^[one]

just information technology is now seen more widely in
email
addresses and
social media
platform
handles.

The absenteeism of a single English language discussion for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the French
arobase

^[2]

or Spanish and Portuguese
arroba, or to coin new words such as
ampersat

^[3]

and
asperand,
^[4]

or the (visual) onomatopoeia

strudel
,
^[5]

but none of these have achieved wide employ.

Although not included on the keyboard of the earliest commercially successful typewriters, information technology was on at least one 1889 model
^[6]

and the very successful
Underwood
models from the “Underwood No. 5” in 1900 onward. Information technology started to exist used in email addresses in the 1970s, and is at present routinely included on most types of
computer keyboards.

History

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The earliest yet discovered symbol in this shape is plant in a
Bulgarian
translation of a
Greek
relate written by
Constantinos Manasses
in 1345. Held today in the Vatican Churchly Library, it features the @ symbol in identify of the majuscule
alpha
“Α” as an
initial
in the word Amen; nevertheless, the reason backside information technology beingness used in this context is still unknown. The development of the symbol every bit used today is not recorded.

Whatever the origin of the @ symbol, the history of its usage is better known: it has long been used in
Catalan,
Spanish
and
Portuguese
as an abridgement of

arroba
, a unit of weight equivalent to 25 pounds, and derived from the
Arabic
expression of “the quarter” (
الربع

pronounced
ar-rubʿ).
^[viii]

An Italian academic, Giorgio Stabile, claims to take traced the @ symbol to the 16th century, in a mercantile certificate sent by
Florentine
Francesco Lapi from
Seville
to
Rome
on May iv, 1536.
^[9]

The document is about commerce with
Pizarro, in detail the price of an @ of wine in
Peru. Currently, the word
arroba
means both the at-symbol and a unit of weight. In
Venetian, the symbol was interpreted to mean
amphora
(
anfora
), a unit of measurement of weight and volume based upon the chapters of the standard amphora jar since the 6th century.

Until now the offset historical document containing a symbol resembling an @ as a commercial one is the Spanish
“Taula de Ariza”, a registry to denote a wheat shipment from Castile to Aragon in 1448; even though the oldest fully developed mod @ sign is the i institute on the above-mentioned Florentine letter.
^[ix]

Modern use

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Commercial usage

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In contemporary English usage, @ is a commercial symbol, significant
at
and
at the rate of
or
at the toll of. It has rarely been used in financial ledgers, and is not used in standard
typography.
^[x]

Trademark

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In 2012, “@” was registered as a
trademark
with the German Patent and Merchandise Mark Office.
^[eleven]

A cancellation request was filed in 2013, and the cancellation was ultimately confirmed past the German Federal Patent Court in 2017.
^[12]

Email addresses

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A mutual gimmicky use of @ is in
electronic mail addresses
(using the
SMTP
organization), as in
[email protected]
(the user
jdoe
located
at
the domain
example.com).
Ray Tomlinson
of
BBN Technologies
is credited for having introduced this usage in 1971.
<sup>[4]


[xiii]</sup>

This idea of the symbol representing
located at
in the form
user@host
is likewise seen in other tools and protocols; for example, the
Unix crush
command
ssh [email protected]
tries to establish an
ssh
connectedness to the estimator with the
hostname
instance.net
using the username
jdoe.

On web pages, organizations oftentimes obscure electronic mail addresses of their members or employees past omitting the @. This do, known equally
address munging, makes the email addresses less vulnerable to spam programs that scan the internet for them.

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On some social media platforms and forums, usernames are in the form
@johndoe; this type of username is frequently referred to as a “handle“.

On online forums without
threaded discussions, @ is usually used to denote a respond; for instance:
@Jane
to reply to a annotate Jane made earlier. Similarly, in some cases, @ is used for “attention” in email letters originally sent to someone else. For example, if an email was sent from Catherine to Steve, but in the body of the electronic mail, Catherine wants to make Keirsten aware of something, Catherine volition start the line
@Keirsten
to bespeak to Keirsten that the following judgement concerns her. This as well helps with mobile email users who might not see bold or color in email.

In
microblogging
(such as on
Twitter
and
GNU social-based microblogs), an @ before the user proper name is used to send publicly readable replies (e.grand.
@otheruser: Bulletin text here). The blog and customer software can automatically interpret these as links to the user in question. When included every bit part of a person’southward or company’due south contact details, an @ symbol followed past a name is unremarkably understood to refer to a Twitter handle. A similar use of the @ symbol was besides made available to Facebook users on September 15, 2009.
^[14]

In
Internet Relay Chat
(IRC), it is shown before users’ nicknames to denote they have operator status on a channel.

Sports usage

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In
American English
the @ can be used to add data about a sporting upshot. Where opposing sports teams have their names separated past a “v” (for
versus), the
away team
can be written get-go – and the normal “v” replaced with @ to convey at which squad’s abode field the game volition be played.
^[15]

This usage is not followed in
British English, since conventionally the dwelling house team is written first.

Computer languages

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@ is used in various
programming languages
and other
computer languages, although there is not a consistent theme to its usage. For example:

• In
  ALGOL 68, the @ symbol is
  brief form
  of the
  at
  keyword; it is used to modify the lower bound of an assortment. For example:
  arrayx[@88]
  refers to an array starting at index 88.
• In
  ActionScript, @ is used in XML parsing and traversal equally a string prefix to identify attributes in contrast to child elements.
• In the
  ASP.NET MVC
  Razor
  template markup syntax, the @ grapheme denotes the start of lawmaking argument blocks or the start of text content.
  <sup>[sixteen]
  
  
  [17]</sup>
  
• In Dyalog
  APL, @ is used as a functional way to modify or supercede data
  at
  specific locations in an array.
• In
  CSS, @ is used in special statements exterior of a CSS block.
  ^[18]
  
• In
  C#, it denotes “verbatim strings”, where no characters are escaped and two double-quote characters represent a single double-quote.
  ^[nineteen]
  
  Equally a prefix it as well allows keywords to exist used as
  identifiers,
  ^[twenty]
  
  a form of
  stropping.
• In
  D, information technology denotes function attributes: like:
  @safe,
  @nogc, user divers
  @('from_user')
  which can be evaluated at compile time (with
  __traits) or
  @property
  to declare properties, which are functions that can be syntactically treated every bit if they were fields or variables.
  ^[21]
  
• In
  DIGITAL Command Language, the @ graphic symbol was the command used to execute a command procedure. To run the control procedure VMSINSTAL.COM, one would blazon
  @VMSINSTAL
  at the command prompt.
• In
  Along, information technology is used to fetch values from the accost on the elevation of the stack. The operator is pronounced as “fetch”.
• In
  Haskell, information technology is used in so-called
  equally-patterns. This notation can be used to give aliases to
  patterns, making them more readable.
• in
  HTML, information technology can be encoded equally
  @
  
  ^[22]
  
• In
  J, denotes
  function limerick.
• In
  Java, it has been used to denote
  annotations, a kind of metadata, since version v.0.
  ^[23]
  
• In
  LiveCode, it is prefixed to a parameter to indicate that the parameter is
  passed by reference.
• In an
  LXDE
  autostart file (as used, for case, on the
  Raspberry Pi
  estimator), @ is prefixed to a command to indicate that the command should be automatically re-executed if information technology crashes.
  ^[24]
  
• In
  ML, it denotes list concatenation.
• In
  modal logic, specifically when representing
  possible worlds, @ is sometimes used equally a logical symbol to denote the actual world (the earth we are “at”).
• In
  Objective-C, @ is prefixed to language-specific keywords such as @implementation and to form string literals.
• In
  Pascal, @ is the “address of” operator (it tells the location at which a variable is found).
• In
  Perl, @ prefixes
  variables
  which incorporate
  arrays
  @array, including array
  slices
  @array[2..5,vii,9]
  and
  hash
  slices
  
@hash
{
'foo'
,
'bar'
,
'baz'
}

  or
  
@hash
{
qw(foo bar baz)
}
. This use is known as a
  
  sigil.
• In
  PHP, it is used but earlier an
  expression
  to make the
  interpreter
  suppress errors that would be generated from that expression.
  ^[25]
  
• In
  Python
  two.4 and upwards, information technology is used to
  decorate a part
  (wrap the function in another one at creation time). In Python 3.5 and up, information technology is also used every bit an overloadable matrix multiplication operator.
  ^[26]
  
• In
  Razor, information technology is used for
  C#
  lawmaking blocks.
  ^[27]
  
• In
  Ruby, it functions as a sigil:
  @
  prefixes
  instance variables, and
  @@
  prefixes
  class variables.
  ^[28]
  
• In
  Scala, it is used to denote annotations (as in Java), and too to bind names to subpatterns in pattern-matching expressions.
  ^[29]
  
• In
  Swift,
  @
  prefixes “annotations” that tin be applied to classes or members. Annotations tell the compiler to apply special semantics to the declaration like keywords, without adding keywords to the language.
• In
  T-SQL,
  @
  prefixes variables and
  @@
  prefixes “niladic” system functions.
• In several
  xBase-type programming languages, like
  DBASE,
  FoxPro/Visual FoxPro
  and
  Clipper, it is used to denote position on the screen. For example:
  @i,1 SAY
"HELLO"

  to show the word “How-do-you-do” in line ane, column 1.
  • In FoxPro/Visual FoxPro, it is besides used to signal explicit
    laissez passer by reference
    of variables when calling
    procedures or functions
    (just it is not an
    address
    operator).
    ^[xxx]
    
• In a Windows
  Batch file, an
  @
  at the beginning of a line suppresses the
  echoing
  of that command. In other words, is the same as
  ECHO OFF
  applied to the current line only. Ordinarily a Windows control is executed and takes effect from the next line onward, but
  @
  is a rare example of a command that takes issue immediately. Information technology is most commonly used in the form
  @repeat off
  which not only switches off echoing but prevents the command line itself from being echoed.
  <sup>[31]
  
  
  [32]</sup>
  
• In
  Windows PowerShell, @ is used as array operator for array and hash table literals and for enclosing here-string literals.
  ^[33]
  
• In the
  Domain Name Arrangement
  (DNS), @ is used to represent the
  $ORIGIN, typically the “root” of the domain without a prefixed sub-domain. (Ex: wikipedia.org vs. world wide web.wikipedia.org)
• In
  assembly language, @ is sometimes used as a
  dereference operator.
  ^[34]
  

Gender neutrality in Spanish

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In
Spanish, where many words end in “-o” when in the masculine
gender
and terminate “-a” in the feminine, @ is sometimes used as a
gender-neutral
substitute for the default “o” ending.
^[35]

For example, the discussion
amigos
traditionally represents not only male friends, but also a mixed group, or where the genders are non known. The proponents of gender-inclusive language would replace it with
amig@s
in these latter 2 cases, and apply
amigos
only when the grouping referred to is all-male and
amigas
only when the group is all female. The
Real Academia Española
disapproves of this usage.
^[36]

Other uses and meanings

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• In (especially English) scientific and technical literature, @ is used to describe the atmospheric condition nether which data are valid or a measurement has been made. E.g. the density of saltwater may read
  d
  = i.050 g/cmⁱⁱⁱ
  @ 15 °C (read “at” for @), density of a gas
  d
  = 0.150 thou/L @ 20 °C, ane bar, or noise of a car 81 dB @ 80 km/h (speed).
  ^[37]
  
• In
  philosophical logic, ‘@’ is used to denote the actual world (in contrast to non-actual possible worlds).<sup>[
  
  commendation needed
  
  ]</sup>
  Analogously, a ‘designated’ globe in a
  Kripke model
  may be labelled ‘@’.<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In chemical formulae, @ is used to denote
  trapped atoms
  or molecules.
  ^[38]
  
  For example, La@C_sixty
  means
  lanthanum
  inside a
  fullerene
  muzzle. See article
  Endohedral fullerene
  for details.
• In
  Malagasy, @ is an informal abbreviation for the prepositional form
  amin’ny.<sup>[
  
  commendation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In
  Malay, @ is an informal abbreviation for the word “atau”, meaning “or” in English.<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In
  genetics, @ is the abbreviation for
  locus, every bit in
  IGL@
  for
  immunoglobulin lambda locus.
  ^[39]
  
• In the
  Koalib language
  of
  Sudan, @ is used as a letter in
  Arabic
  loanwords. The
  Unicode Consortium
  rejected a proposal to encode it separately as a alphabetic character in
  Unicode.
  SIL International
  uses
  Private Use Area
  lawmaking points U+F247 and U+F248 for lowercase and uppercase versions, although they take marked this PUA representation as
  deprecated
  since September 2014.
  ^[twoscore]
  
• A
  schwa, as the actual schwa character “ə” may exist difficult to produce on many computers. Information technology is used in this capacity in some
  ASCII IPA schemes, including
  SAMPA
  and
  X-SAMPA.<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In
  leet
  it may substitute for the letter “A”.<sup>[
  
  commendation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• It is frequently used in typing and
  text messaging
  as an abbreviation for “at”.
  <sup>[41]
  
  
  [37]</sup>
  
• In Portugal it may exist used in typing and text messaging with the meaning “french buss” (linguado).<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In online discourse, @ is used by some
  anarchists
  as a substitute for the traditional
  circumvolve-A.<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• Algebraic annotation for the
  Crazyhouse
  chess variant: An @ between a piece and a foursquare denotes a piece dropped onto that square from the thespian’s reserve.
  ^[42]
  

Names in other languages

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In many languages other than English, although nigh
typewriters
included the symbol, the employ of @ was less common before email became widespread in the mid-1990s. Consequently, it is oftentimes perceived in those languages every bit denoting “the Internet”, computerization, or modernization in general. Naming the symbol after animals is also common.

• In
  Afrikaans, it is called
  
  aapstert
  , meaning ‘monkey tail’, similarly to the
  Dutch
  utilize of the give-and-take (
  aap
  
  is the word for ‘monkey’ or ‘ape’ in
  Dutch,
  
  stert
  
  comes from the Dutch
  
  staart
  ).
• In
  Standard arabic, it is
  
  آتْ
  
  (
  at
  ).
• In
  Armenian, it is
  
  շնիկ
  
  (
  shnik
  ), which means ‘puppy’.
• In
  Azerbaijani, it is
  
  ət
  
  (
  at
  ) which means ‘meat’, though most likely it is a phonetic transliteration of
  at.
• In
  Basque, it is
  
  a bildua
  
  (‘wrapped A’).
• In
  Belarusian, it is called
  
  сьлімак
  
  (
  sʹlimak
  , meaning ‘helix’ or ‘snail’).
• In
  Bosnian, it is
  
  ludo a
  
  (‘crazy A’).
• In
  Bulgarian, information technology is called
  
  кльомба
  
  (
  klyomba
  
  – ‘a badly written letter of the alphabet’),
  
  маймунско а
  
  (
  maymunsko a
  
  – ‘monkey A’),
  
  маймунка
  
  (
  maimunka
  
  – ‘little monkey’), or
  
  баница
  
  (
  banitsa
  
  – a pastry ringlet ofttimes made in a shape similar to the character)
• In
  Catalan, information technology is called
  
  arrova
  
  (a unit of measure out) or
  
  
  ensaïmada
  
  
  (a
  Mallorcan
  pastry, considering of the similar shape of this food).
• In
  Chinese:
  • In
    mainland China, it used to be chosen
    
    圈A
    
    (pronounced
    
    quān A
    ), significant ‘circled A’ / ‘enclosed A‘, or
    
    花A
    
    (pronounced
    
    huā A
    ), meaning ‘lacy A’, and sometimes as
    
    小老鼠
    
    (pronounced
    
    xiǎo lǎoshǔ
    ), meaning ‘little
    mouse‘.
    ^[43]
    
    Present, for well-nigh of Prc’s youth, information technology is called
    
    艾特
    
    (pronounced
    
    ài tè
    ), which is the phonetic transcription from
    at.
  • In
    Taiwan, it is
    
    小老鼠
    
    (pronounced
    
    xiǎo lǎoshǔ
    ), meaning ‘little
    mouse‘.
  • In
    Hong Kong
    and
    Macau, it is
    at.
• In
  Croatian, information technology is virtually often referred to by the English word
  at
  (pronounced
  et), and less commonly and more formally, with the preposition
  
  pri
  
  (with the addressee in the
  nominative instance, not
  locative
  as per usual
  rection
  of
  
  pri
  ), pregnant ‘at’, ‘
  chez
  ‘ or ‘by’. Informally, it is called a
  
  manki
  , coming from the local pronunciation of the English word
  monkey. Note that the Croatian words for monkey,
  
  majmun
  ,
  
  opica
  ,
  
  jopec
  ,
  
  šimija
  
  are non used to announce the symbol, except seldom the latter words regionally.
• In
  Czech
  it is called
  
  zavináč
  , which means ‘rollmops‘; the same give-and-take is used in
  Slovak.
• In
  Danish, information technology is
  
  snabel-a
  
  (‘elephant‘south torso A’). Information technology is not used for prices, where in Danish
  
  à
  
  means ‘at (per piece)’.
• In
  Dutch, information technology is called
  
  apenstaart
  
  (‘monkey’s tail’). The
  a
  is the first character of the Dutch give-and-take
  
  aap
  
  which means ‘monkey’ or ‘ape’;
  
  apen
  
  is the plural of
  
  aap
  . However, the use of the English
  at
  has become increasingly pop in Dutch.
• In
  Esperanto, it is called
  
  ĉe-signo
  
  (‘at’ – for the email apply, with an accost like “[email protected]” pronounced
  
  zamenhof ĉe esperanto punkto org
  ),
  
  po-signo
  
  (‘each’ – refers only to the mathematical utilize), or
  
  heliko
  
  (meaning ‘snail’).
• In
  Estonian, it is called
  
  ätt
  , from the English word
  at.
• In
  Faroese, information technology is
  
  kurla
  ,
  
  hjá
  
  (‘at’),
  
  tranta
  , or
  
  snápil-a
  
  (‘[elephant’south] torso A’).
• In
  Finnish, it was originally called
  
  taksamerkki
  
  (“fee sign”) or
  
  yksikköhinnan merkki
  
  (“unit price sign”), simply these names are long obsolete and now rarely understood. Present, it is officially
  
  ät-merkki
  , according to the national standardization institute
  SFS; frequently as well spelled
  
  at-merkki
  . Other names include
  
  kissanhäntä
  
  (‘cat’southward tail’) and
  
  miuku mauku
  
  (‘miaow-meow’).
• In
  French, it is now officially the
  
  arobase
  
  
  <sup>[44]
  
  
  [45]</sup>
  
  (too spelled
  
  arrobase
  
  or
  
  arrobe
  ), or
  
  a commercial
  
  (though this is nigh usually used in French-speaking Canada, and should normally just be used when quoting prices; it should always be called
  
  arobase
  
  or, meliorate yet,
  
  arobas
  
  when in an email address). Its origin is the same as that of the
  Spanish
  word, which could be derived from the
  Arabic
  
  ar-roub
  
  (‏
  اَلرُّبْع
  ‎). In French republic, information technology is as well common (peculiarly for younger generations) to say the English language word
  at
  when spelling out an email address.<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
  In everyday
  Québec French, one often hears
  
  a commercial
  
  when sounding out an electronic mail accost, while Television set and radio hosts are more likely to apply
  
  arobase
  .
• In
  Georgian, it is
  
  at
  , spelled
  
  ეთ–ი
  
  (
  კომერციული ეთ–ი
  ,
  
  ḳomerciuli et-i
  ).
• In
  German, it has sometimes been referred to every bit
  
  Klammeraffe
  
  (meaning ‘spider monkey‘) or
  
  Affenschwanz
  
  (meaning ‘monkeys
  tail‘).
  
  Klammeraffe
  
  or
  
  Affenschwanz
  
  refer to the similarity of @ to the tail of a monkey
  <sup>[46]
  
  [
  
  better source needed
  
  ]</sup>
  grabbing a co-operative. More recently, it is unremarkably referred to as
  
  at
  , as in English.
• In
  Greek, it is called
  
  παπάκι
  
  significant ‘duckling’.
• In
  Greenlandic, an Inuit language, it is called
  
  aajusaq
  
  significant ‘A-like’ or ‘something that looks like A’.
• In
  Hebrew, it is colloquially known as
  
  שְׁטְרוּדֶל
  
  (
  
  shtrúdel
  
  ), due to the visual resemblance to a cross-section cutting of a strudel block. The normative term, invented by the
  Academy of the Hebrew Linguistic communication, is
  
  כְּרוּכִית
  
  (
  krukhít
  ), which is some other Hebrew discussion for ‘strudel’, but is rarely used.
• In
  Hindi, information technology is
  
  at
  , from the English language discussion.
• In
  Hungarian, it is called
  
  kukac
  
  (a playful synonym for ‘worm’ or ‘maggot’).
• In
  Icelandic, information technology is referred to as
  
  atmerkið
  
  (“the at sign”) or
  
  hjá
  , which is a direct translation of the English language discussion
  at.
• In
  Indian English language, speakers often say
  at the rate of
  (with email addresses quoted as “example
  at the rate of
  example.com”).<sup>[
  
  commendation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In
  Indonesian, it is usually
  
  et
  . Variations be – especially if exact communication is very noisy – such as
  
  a bundar
  
  and
  
  a bulat
  
  (both meaning ‘circled
  A’),
  
  a keong
  
  (‘snail
  A’), and (almost rarely)
  
  a monyet
  
  (‘monkey
  A’).
• In
  Irish, it is
  
  ag
  
  (meaning ‘at’) or
  
  comhartha @/ag
  
  (significant ‘at sign’).
• In
  Italian, information technology is
  
  chiocciola
  
  (‘snail‘) or
  
  a commerciale
  , sometimes
  
  at
  
  (pronounced more frequently
  
  
  [ˈɛt]
  
  and rarely
  [ˈat]) or
  
  ad
  .
• In
  Japanese, it is called
  
  atto māku
  
  (
  アットマーク
  , from the English words
  at marking). The word is
  
  
  wasei-eigo
  
  , a loan discussion from the English language language.
• In
  Kazakh, it is officially called
  
  айқұлақ
  
  (
  aıqulaq
  , ‘moon’s ear’).
• In
  Korean, it is chosen
  
  golbaeng-i
  
  (
  골뱅이
  , meaning ‘bai top shells’), a dialectal grade of
  whelk.
• In
  Kurdish, it is
  at
  or
  et
  (Latin
  Hawar script),
  
  ئهت
  
  (Perso-Standard arabic
  Sorani script) coming from the English word
  at.
• In
  Latvian, it is pronounced the same as in English, merely, since in Latvian
  [æ]
  is written as “e” (non “a” equally in English language), it is sometimes written as
  
  et
  .
• In
  Lithuanian, it is pronounced
  
  eta
  
  (equivalent to the English language
  at).
• In
  Luxembourgish
  it used to be called
  
  Afeschwanz
  
  (‘monkey tail’), merely due to widespread use, it is now called
  
  at
  , as in English.
• In
  Macedonian, information technology is called
  
  мајмунче
  
  (
  majmunče
  ,
  
  
  [ˈmajmuntʃɛ]
  , ‘little monkey’).
• In
  Malay, information technology is called
  
  allonym
  
  when it is used in names and
  
  di
  
  when information technology is used in email addresses,
  
  di
  
  being the Malay word for ‘at’. It is also normally used to abbreviate
  
  atau
  
  which means ‘or’, ‘either’.
• In
  Morse code, information technology is known equally a “commat“, consisting of the Morse code for the “A” and “C” which run together every bit ane character:
    ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ ▄. The symbol was added in 2004 for use with electronic mail addresses,
  ^[47]
  
  the only official change to Morse lawmaking since
  Globe War I.
• In
  Nepali, the symbol is chosen “at the rate.” Commonly, people will give their e-mail addresses by including the phrase “at the rate”.<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In
  Norwegian, it is officially called
  
  krøllalfa
  
  (‘curly
  alpha‘ or ‘alpha twirl’), and commonly as
  
  alfakrøll
  . Sometimes
  
  snabel-a
  , the Swedish/Danish name (which means ‘trunk A’, every bit in ‘elephant’s torso’), is used. Commonly, people will call the symbol
  [æt]
  (every bit in English language), especially when giving their electronic mail addresses.
• In
  Farsi, it is
  
  at
  , from the English word.
• In
  Polish, it is ordinarily called
  
  małpa
  
  (‘monkey’). Rarely, the English give-and-take
  at
  is used.
• In
  Portuguese, it is called
  
  arroba
  
  (from the Arabic
  
  ar-roub
  , ‏
  اَلرُّبْع
  ‎). The word
  
  
  arroba
  
  
  is also used for a weight measure in Portuguese. One arroba is equivalent to 32 erstwhile Portuguese pounds, approximately 14.7 kg (32 lb), and both the weight and the symbol are called
  
  arroba
  . In Brazil,
  cattle
  are yet priced by the
  
  arroba
   – now rounded to xv kg (33 lb). This naming is because the at sign was used to represent this mensurate.
• In
  Romanian, it is most usually chosen
  
  at
  , just also colloquially chosen
  
  
  coadă
  de
  maimuță
  
  
  (“monkey tail”) or
  
  a-rond
  . The latter is commonly used, and information technology comes from the word
  round
  (from its shape), but that is nothing similar the mathematical symbol
  
  A-rond
  
  (rounded A). Others call information technology
  
  aron
  , or
  
  la
  
  (Romanian discussion for ‘at’).

• In
  Russian, it is commonly chosen
  
  соба[ч]ка
  
  (
  soba[ch]ka
  
  – ‘[little] domestic dog’).
• In
  Serbian, it is called
  
  лудо А
  
  (
  ludo A
  
  – ‘crazy A’),
  
  мајмунче
  
  (
  majmunče
  
  – ‘little monkey’), or
  
  мајмун
  
  (
  majmun
  
  – ‘monkey’).
• In
  Slovak, it is called
  
  zavináč
  
  (‘rollmop’, a pickled fish whorl, as in Czech).
• In
  Slovene, it is called
  
  afna
  
  (an informal give-and-take for ‘monkey’).
• In
  Spanish-speaking
  countries, it is chosen
  
  arroba
  
  (from the Standard arabic
  
  ar-roub
  , which denotes a pre-metric unit of weight. While there are regional variations in
  Kingdom of spain,
  Mexico,
  Colombia,
  Ecuador, and
  Peru
  it is typically considered to represent approximately 11.5 kg (25 lb).<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In
  Sámi
  (N Sámi), it is called
  
  bussáseaibi
  
  meaning ‘cat’s tail’.
• In
  Swedish, it is chosen
  
  snabel-a
  
  (‘elephant‘southward trunk A’) or simply
  
  at
  , as in the English linguistic communication. Less formally it is too known as
  
  kanelbulle
  
  (‘cinnamon roll‘) or
  
  alfakrull
  
  (‘alpha
  curl’).
• In
  Swiss German language, it is commonly chosen
  
  Affenschwanz
  
  (‘monkey-tail’). Nevertheless, the utilize of the English word
  
  at
  
  has get increasingly pop in Swiss German language, every bit with Standard German.<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In
  Tagalog, the discussion
  
  at
  
  means ‘and’, so the symbol is used like an ampersand in colloquial writing such as text messages (eastward.1000.
  
  magluto @ kumain
  , ‘cook and eat’).
• In
  Thai, it is commonly chosen
  
  at
  , as in English.
• In
  Turkish, it is ordinarily called
  
  et
  , a variant pronunciation of English
  at.<sup>[
  
  citation needed
  
  ]</sup>
• In
  Ukrainian, it is commonly called
  
  ет
  
  (
  et
  
  – ‘at’) or Равлик (ravlyk), which ways ‘snail’.
• In
  Urdu, it is
  
  اٹ
  
  (
  at
  ).
• In
  Vietnamese, it is called
  
  a còng
  
  (‘bent A’) in
  the north
  and
  
  a móc
  
  (‘hooked A’) in
  the s.
• In
  Welsh, information technology is sometimes known as a
  
  malwen
  
  or
  
  malwoden
  
  (both meaning “snail”).

Unicode

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In Unicode, the at sign is encoded every bit

U+0040

@
COMMERCIAL AT
(&commat;). The named entity
@
was introduced in HTML5.
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Variants

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See also

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• ASCII
• Circle-A
• Enclosed A
  (Ⓐ,
  ⓐ)
• Unicode

References

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External links

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• 
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  Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  
  
• “The Accidental History of the @ Symbol “,
  
  Smithsonian magazine
  , September 2012, Retrieved October 2021.
• The @-symbol,
  part i,
  intermission,
  part two,
  addenda,
  
  Shady Characters ⌂ The secret life of punctuation
  
  August 2011, Retrieved June 2013.
• “Daniel Soar on @”,
  
  London Review of Books
  , Vol. 31 No. 10, 28 May 2009, Retrieved June 2013.
• ascii64 – the @ volume – free download (creative commons) – by patrik sneyd – foreword by luigi colani)
  Nov 2006, Retrieved June 2013.
• A Natural History of the @ Sign
  The many names of the at sign in various languages, 1997, Retrieved June 2013.
• Sum: the @ Symbol,
  LINGUIST List 7.968
  July 1996, Retrieved June 2013.
• Where information technology’s At: names for a common symbol
  
  Globe Wide Words
  
  August 1996, Retrieved June 2013.
• United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Telegraph Article: Chinese parents cull to name their babe “@”
  August 2007, Retrieved June 2013.
• Tom Chatfield tells the story of the @ sign on Medium
• An agreeable video from BBC Ideas
  
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