Couple try to name baby “@” | The Daily Telegraph

A Chinese couple tried to name their baby “@”, claiming the
character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an
official trying to whip the national language into line said on
Thursday. The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has
no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke
characters to represent words. “The whole world uses it to write
e-mail, and translated into Chinese it means ‘love him’,” the father
explained, according to the deputy chief of the State Language
Commission Li Yuming. While the “@” simple is familiar to Chinese
e-mail users, they often use the English word “at” to sound it out—which with a drawn out “T” sounds something like “ai ta”, or “love
him”, to Mandarin speakers.