A Chinese couple is looking for a modern name for their baby and wanted to named their baby “@”. The “@” symbol pronounced in English as ‘at’ sounds like the Chinese phrase “ai ta”, or “love him/her”.

“The father said ‘the whole world uses it to write emails and translated into Chinese it means’love him’,” said Li Yuming, the vice director of the State Language Commission, said at a news conference.

[via Neatorama]