斜杠

斜槓
xiégàng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 slash; forward slash (/)
  2. 2 multi-career (of a person with several jobs at once)

Examples

HSK 3
Qǐng zài liǎng ge míngzi zhōngjiān jiā yí ge xiégàng.
Please put a slash between the two names.
HSK 6
Tā báitiān dāng lǎoshī, wǎnshang xiě xiǎoshuō, shì ge diǎnxíng de xiégàng qīngnián.
She teaches by day and writes novels at night, a typical "slash youth" with more than one career.

Tips

usage
The backslash is 反斜杠. The career sense comes from the slash in self-descriptions like "teacher/writer": 斜杠青年 'slash youth' became a buzzword around 2016 for young people with several careers at once.

Stroke Order

斜 xié
杠 gàng