Chinese couple tried to name baby "@"

[chokkan 2]

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.

[shindoushiz]

Sounds okay, as long as they use the Chinese characters and not the "@" symbol.

[reyfer]

Sounds okay, as long as they use the Chinese characters and not the "@" symbol.

The whole point of the article is that this coupe wanted to name the kid with the "@" symbol because the pronunciation of said symbol is similar to "ai ta" or "love him". So they did not want the chinese characters for "ai ta", they wanted the "@" symbol as the name.

[frblckstr1]

^ They should have asked for '%' would give some nice side-effects on most databases

/geek

[schol3s]

even though it is very weird to have such name.... i still think that the parents are quite creative...

[kukine]

it's @you !
..
their parent's must be bored

[orangesocks]

Does "@" really sound like "愛他?" 

Reminds me of when Prince changed his name to a symbol. I hope that kid doesn't get ostracized by his peers for having a unique name.

[Kuja]

This reminds me about some couple in Swedland that wanted to name their son 'Superman'. They teach you in school that a name must not be offencive, but such names as Raivo Kosto (in english anger revenge) and Homo can still be given to people in here...