But according to the local newspaper in Shandong, computers do not recognise the local variant of Shaan, a cross between the symbol for "three" and the sign for "and".
The No Child Left Behind Bill, which was an early symbol of cooperation between Congress and the president, is very much in the balance.
The resort, built by South Korea's Hyundai conglomerate, opened in 1998 as a symbol of reconciliation between the two Koreas and had been a major source of cash for the impoverished North.
The Berlin Wall once stood as a painful barrier between family and friends, a dark symbol of oppression and stifled liberties.
"It is also a symbol that marks the doorway between the world of the living and the world of the dead that is offered as our acknowledgement of the dead, " he told the BBC.
"We hope that this is a symbol that the wounds are healing between the two countries, " said the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abune Paulos.
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The tree has become a symbol of the close and warm relationship between the people of Britain and Norway.
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Correspondents say the dispute over the wall has become a symbol of the greater tensions in Israeli society between ultra-Orthodox Jews, who abide by a very strict interpretation of Jewish law, and more modern elements of Judaism.
Marie, is a fitting symbol of the continued friendship, commerce and cooperation between our two great countries.
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He has even become a religious symbol for the followers of Santeria, a mixture between West African religions and Catholicism that still has many adherents in Cuba and Miami.
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