Unicode contains a number characters that represent various cultural, political, and religious symbols. Most but not all of these are in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Most of them are treated as graphic symbols that are not characters.Exceptions to this include characters in certain writing systems that are also in use as political or religious symbols, such as ࿕ (U+0FD5), the swastika encoded as a Chinese character; or ॐ (U+0950), the Aum symbol which is strictly speaking a Devanagari ligature. A special case is ﷲ (U+FDF2), the llah glyph of the Arabic alphabet codepage which is a special ligature of the Arabic script which, however, has as its only application in the writing of the word Allah.