yu-shiang whole fish

Yu-Shiang Whole Fish
 /yoo.shyang hohl fish/, n. obs.

   The character gamma (extended SAIL ASCII 0001001), 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 {parse}d) and covered with Yu-Shiang (or Yu-Hsiang) sauce. Usage:
   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.

   Yu Shiang Whole Fish is alive and well in Unicode as U+0263 LATIN
   SMALL LETTER GAMMA (as opposed to the actual Greek letter at U+03B3,
   which usually has a loopless glyph; the form of U+0263 is consistently
   loopy). This symbol is included in Unicode as a Latin letter because
   it is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In the IPA, gamma
   represents a voiced velar fricative, the sound commonly transcribed
   "gh" in Arabic or Klingon.
    

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 {parse}d)
   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)