斜杠青年

斜槓青年

xiégàng qīngnián

noun

Meanings

1 "slash youth", a young person with several careers at once
2 slashie

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

越来越多的年轻人不满足于一份工作，想做斜杠青年。

Yuèláiyuè duō de niánqīngrén bù mǎnzú yú yí fèn gōngzuò, xiǎng zuò xiégàng qīngnián.

More and more young people aren't content with one job and want to be slashies.

HSK 7-9

我表姐白天当老师，晚上写小说，是个斜杠青年。

Wǒ biǎojiě báitiān dāng lǎoshī, wǎnshang xiě xiǎoshuō, shì ge xiégàng qīngnián.

My cousin teaches by day and writes novels at night; she's a slashie.

Tips

culture

The name comes from the slashes in self-introductions such as 作家/摄影师/设计师 (writer/photographer/designer). It borrows the "slash careers" of American author Marci Alboher's 2007 book One Person/Multiple Careers, and spread in China in the mid-2010s.

Stroke Order

斜 xié

杠 gàng

青 qīng

年 nián