Yu-Shiang Whole Fish

/yoo-shyang hohl fish/ An obsolete name for the Greek

character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII code 9, Unicode glyph

0x0263) which with a loop in its tail looks like a little fish

swimming down the page. The term is actually the name of a

Chinese dish in which a fish is cooked whole (not parsed)

and covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang) sauce. Used

primarily by people on the MIT LISP Machine, which could

display this character on the screen. Tends to elicit

incredulity from people who hear about it second-hand.

[Jargon File]

(1995-01-31)