Phone's haunted.
Also... Google translate says hai is German for shark. So there's that.
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It is also Finnish for shark.
ETA: it also is Estonian, and Norwegian for shark.
โHaiโ is a shark in German.
At least in Chinese it's ๆตท่ฑ (haitun).
so it's just wants to go where it was made and swim with the dolphins.
In Dutch, the word is "haai" for shark.
It's the same in Afrikaans. But there's a 60% overlap in the vocabulary there, so it makes sense.
1 less โaโ for the German Shark: โHaiโ
(As already mentioned in another comment)
Dolphins are famous for their friendly greetings, and make over 4.1 billion dollars a year in the greeting card industry.