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, or in
modern Pinyin transliteration yuxiang) 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.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {ASCII}{oriental food}]