斜槓

Chinese

slanting carrying pole; horizontal bar
trad. (斜槓)
simp. (斜杠)

Etymology

For the career context, the word is from Marci Alboher's book One Person / Multiple Careers: The Original Guide to the Slash Career, in which the author refers the word slash to someone who has multiple careers.

Pronunciation


Noun

斜槓

  1. slash (punctuation)
  2. (informal) slash career (a person who makes multiple income streams simultaneously from different careers)
    斜槓青年斜杠青年   xiégàng qīngnián   slash youth (a youth person who has multiple income streams simultaneously)

Derived terms

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