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Well... today we’re going to talk about the @ symbol, although it’s just a small symbol. 　 There is a list on Wikipedia that records the various names for @ in different **languages. It’s kind of interesting. 　 South African: Monkey tail. Armenian: Puppy (a puppy curled up into a ball). Azerbaijani: Dog. Basque (Spain): Wrapped A. Belarusian: Snail. Bosnian: Crazy A. Bulgarian: Monkey A; another term is “the letter that’s written poorly”. Catalan: Called ensaïmada (a type of bread...). Chinese: Previously called Circle A or Flower A; some also call it little mouse. Nowadays, young people in China call it “ait”, while those in Taiwan call it little mouse. Croatian: Sometimes called at, sometimes monkey. Czechoslovakian: Zavináč, a food similar to a fish roll... Danish: Elephant’s trunk A. Dutch: Monkey tail, but recently the English word “at” has also come into use. Spanish: Sometimes called snail, sometimes “at” from English. Estonian: The English word “at”. Faroese: At or elephant’s trunk A. Finnish: Initially called “that symbol for money”; some also call it cat tail, or read @ as “miaow-meow” (Hey, my email address is editor.miaow-meow.hereinuk.com... It’s pretty cute). German: Sometimes called spider monkey Klammeraffe; sometimes monkey tail – Affenschwanz. Only recently has “at” become popular. Greek: Duck. Greenlandic and Inuit: “The character that looks like A” or “that thing that resembles A” – aajusaq. Hebrew: Pastry roll... Hungarian: Worm... (It can also be translated as maggot...) Icelandic: atmerkie, which means “the at symbol”. Indian English: At the rate of... For example, editor at the rate of k.com. Indonesian: Circle A, snail A, monkey A... Italian: Snail. Japanese: Some call it the at symbol – アットマーク; others call it “whirlpool” or “Megumi roll”. Kazakh: Ears of the moon... There’s also an unofficial name: dog head. Korean: Conch shell – 골뱅이. Kyrgyzstan: Officially, it’s called monkey; unofficially, dog. Luxembourgish: Initially used “monkey tail”; after it became popular, “at” was started using. Macedonian: Little monkey. Norwegian: Officially called rolled alpha; other names include elephant’s trunk... Nowadays, many people use “at” when giving email addresses. Welsh: A type of snail. Vietnamese: People in the north call it curved A, while those in the south call it hooked A (also a descriptive term). Uzbek: Similar to Russian, meaning puppy. Ukrainian: Has many meanings; mostly it refers to the English word “at”, sometimes snail, sometimes small slug, sometimes ear, and sometimes puppy... (Quite a variety of meanings!) -) Tagalog: @ means “and”, similar to &. In Swiss German: monkey tail... Influenced by the meaning of “at” in English, many people later adopted the meaning of “@” in English. Swedish: Trunk, or in English \"at\"; in some informal contexts it refers to cinnamon rolls... Portuguese: It means arroba, a unit of weight – 1 arroba is equal to 32 old Portuguese pounds, which is approximately 14.7 kg. In Brazil, the arroba has always been used as the unit to measure the weight of livestock; one arroba is roughly equivalent to 15 pounds. Slovenian: Monkey. Serbian: Mad one. Russian: It mostly refers to puppies. Romanian: It generally means “at”, but sometimes its pronunciation is that of the word for monkey tail in Romanian; due to its shape, it is also often used to denote a circle. Polish: The pronunciation for \"monkey\" is the same in formal and informal contexts; sometimes it refers to a little monkey.