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.

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