斜杠

斜槓

xié gàng

Meanings

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xié gàng

1.slash; forward slash (punctuation mark)
2.(neologism, attested by 2016) (coll.) (attributive) pursuing multiple career paths concurrently; having a portfolio career; (of a career, identity etc) multi-path; multi-hyphenate; slashie

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Wiktionary

1.slash (punctuation)
2.slash career (a person who makes multiple income streams simultaneously from different careers)

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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.

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