@

See also: Appendix:Variations of "a" and Appendix:Variations of "at"

@ U+0040, @ COMMERCIAL AT ← ? [U+003F] Basic Latin A → [U+0041]

Character variations

﹫ U+FE6B, ﹫ SMALL COMMERCIAL AT [unassigned: U+FE6C–U+FE6F] ← ﹪ [U+FE6A] Small Form Variants ﹰ → [U+FE70]

＠ U+FF20, ＠ FULLWIDTH COMMERCIAL AT ← ？ [U+FF1F] Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ａ → [U+FF21]

Translingual

Etymology

A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά (aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (“to”), or French à (“to”).)

Symbol

@ (English symbol name at sign)

1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).

   My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.

2. At the rate of; per.

   7 @ $2 = $14 ― seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars

3. (computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
4. (Internet) Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.

   Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?
   Jack: @Bob, you need to protect the files with a password.

5. (phonetics) A pulse of laughter. (Thus @@@ is the transcription equivalent of ha! ha! ha! or hee! hee! hee! etc. in conventional orthography.)
6. (video games) In roguelike games, the player character, conventionally represented by this symbol in character-based interfaces.

   While I was dealing with the hounds, an orc tracker stumbled across @ from the east.

See also

• English: at sign

English

Pronunciation

• (stressed) enPR: ăt, IPA^(key): /æt/ ("at")

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /ət/
• (Northern US, rare) IPA^(key): /ˈitʃæt/ ("each at")
• Rhymes: -æt
• Homophone: at

Etymology 1

Preposition

@

1. At a rate of (so much each).

   15 items @ $10

   @ 80 km/h ― at eighty kilometres per hour

2. (informal) At (any sense).

   @ 20°C ― at twenty degrees Celsius

   Text message: “im @ school.”

Translations

at a rate of

• Danish: à (da)
• Dutch: à (nl)
• German: à (de)
• Norwegian: à (no)
• Swedish: à (sv)

Verb

@ (third-person singular simple present @s, present participle @ing, simple past and past participle @ed)

1. (Internet slang, transitive) To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)

   Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.

   He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.

   • 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 2:

     She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people.

   • 2024 October 10, Mehera Bonner, “The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     "you need to calm down" — my credit card @ me.

Usage notes

• Chiefly used in the phrase don't @ me. It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, in order to forestall dissent.

Alternative forms

• at

See also

• at sign
• @ party

Etymology 2

Due to the fact that The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

Symbol

@

2. Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.

   Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@

3. By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.

   Kosov@; Pin@y

See also

• x

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Preposition

@

1. (informal, Internet) regarding

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Hebrew

Symbol

@

1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.

Usage notes

The symbol is called כְּרוּכִית (krukhit, “strudel; at sign, @”), or sometimes colloquially שְׁטְרוּדֶל (“strudel; at sign, @”).

Hungarian

Symbol

@

1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.

Usage notes

The symbol is called kukac (“worm”) in Hungarian because of its shape.

Japanese

Etymology 1

Symbol

@ 

1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.
2. (Internet slang) used to attach a qualifier to someone's name

   cosMo@暴(ぼう)走(そう)P

   cosMo@BōsōP

   cosMo@Bōsō-P

   • てさぐれ！部活もの

     ドンチキ田(た)中(なか)@イケメン大(だい)好(す)き

     Donchiki Tanaka@Ikemen daisuki

     Donchiki Tanaka@I Love Hot Men

Usage notes

The symbol is called 単(たん)価(か)記(き)号(ごう) (tankakigō), アットマーク (atto māku), or アット (atto).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a̠t̚to̞]

Particle

@(アット) • (atto) 

1. at a rate of

   500(ごひゃく) @(アット) 5(ご)円(えん)

   gohyaku atto go-en

   500 items at 5 yen each

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [de̞]

Particle

@(で) • (de) 

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of で (de, “at”, indicating a location at which something happens)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a̠to̞]

Particle

@(あと) • (ato) 

1. (slang, gaming) Alternative form of あと (ato, “remaining”)

   @(あと) 5(ご) 個(こ)

   ato go ko

   five items remaining

   @(あと) 1(いち)時(じ)間(かん)で寝(ね)る

   ato ichi-jikan de neru

   I'll go to bed in an hour

Malagasy

Preposition

@

1. (informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Symbol

@

1. the symbol for the arroba unit of weight

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English @.

Symbol

@

1. (now chiefly proscribed) gender-neutral replacement for masculine -o or -e and feminine -a

   @s alun@s = {os alunos, as alunas}

   the students

   est@ usuári@ = {este usuário, esta usuária}

   this user

Usage notes

• @ and -x have been gradually displaced by -e as gender-neutral suffixes in favor of users of text-to-speech and people with reading disorders.

Russian

Symbol

@

1. @

Usage notes

• This symbol is called эт (et), лягу́шка (ljagúška), обезья́нка (obezʹjánka), соба́ка (sobáka), or комме́рческое «эт» (kommérčeskoje «et»).

Serbo-Croatian

Symbol

@

1. @

Usage notes

The sign has several possible names:

• et
• manki (Croatian)
• луда »а« (luda »a«, literally “crazy ‘a’”) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• мајмун (majmun) (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Spanish

Etymology

Due to the fact that The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

Symbol

@

1. the symbol for the arroba unit of weight and volume
2. (informal) a replacement for o or e and a, to include both masculine and feminine forms

   l@s alumn@s = {los alumnos, las alumnas}

   the students

   est@ usuari@ = {este usuario, esta usuaria}

   this user

   • 2000, Onofre Ricardo Contreras Jordán, La formación inicial y permanente del profesor de educación física, Univ de Castilla La Mancha, →ISBN, page 131:

     Deberá el/la tutor/a orientar, reconducir y resolver las mil y una dudas que se plantean l@s alumn@s en el prácticum ya sea I, II o III, en sus diferentes actuaciones docentes, en cuanto a evaluación, niveles de dificultad parámetros que evaluar y un largo etc […]

     The tutor must guide, redirect and resolve the thousand and one doubts that students have in the practicum, whether I, II or III, in their different teaching activities, in terms of evaluation, levels of difficulty, parameters to be evaluated and a broad […]

Swedish

Symbol

@

1. (computing) The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address.

Usage notes

The symbol is called snabel-a (“elephant's trunk A”) in Swedish because of its shape. Less formally it is also known as kanelbulle (“cinnamon roll”) or alfakrull (“alpha curl”)

Turkish

Symbol

@ (et işareti)

1. her biri (“each”)