@

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

@	U+0040, @ COMMERCIAL AT

← ?
[U+003F]

Basic Latin

A →
[U+0041]

﹫	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”).)

Use to create gender-neutral spellings of Spanish and Portuguese words is due to the fact that @ resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

Symbol

@

(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.
At the rate of; per.
7 @ $2 = $14 (that is, seven, at two dollars each, are fourteen dollars).
(computing, IRC) The most common choice of configurable prefix symbol to identify a channel operator.
(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.

English

Pronunciation

(stressed) enPR: ăt, IPA^(key): /æt/ ("at")
(unstressed) IPA^(key): /ət/
(Northern US, rare) IPA^(key): /itʃæt/ ("each at")
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -æt
Homophone: at

Preposition

@

at a rate of (so much each)
15 items @ $10
@ 80 km/h (at eighty kilometres per hour)
(informal) at (any sense)
@ 20°C (at twenty degrees Celsius)
Text message: "im @ school."

Translations

at a rate of

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)

(Internet slang) To reply to or talk 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.

Usage notes

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

Alternative forms

at

Symbol

@

Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@
By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.
Kosov@; Pin@y

German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛt/
Audio (file)

Preposition

@

(informal, Internet) regarding
(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Hebrew

Symbol

@

(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

@

(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

Symbol

@

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
(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
(internet jargon) 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 (attomāku), or アット (atto).

Malagasy

Preposition

@

(informal) Abbreviation of amin'ny.

Portuguese

Symbol

@

the symbol for the arroba unit of weight
(informal, chiefly leftist jargon and marketing) gender-neutral replacement for masculine -o and feminine -a (or masculine -e and feminine -a)
@s alumn@s = {os alumnos, as alumnas}
the students
est@ usuári@ = {este usuário, esta usuária}
this user

Russian

Symbol

@

@

Usage notes

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

Serbo-Croatian

Symbol

@

@

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

Symbol

@

The symbol for the arroba unit of weight and volume.
(informal) A replacement for o and a, to include both masculine and feminine forms.
l@s alumn@s = los alumnos y las alumnas (the male and female students)
- 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

@

(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

@

her biri (“each”)