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斜杠

xié gàng

2-character word Traditional 斜槓

What 斜杠 means

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

The characters in 斜杠

• 斜xiéinclined; slanting; oblique
• 杠gàngcoffin-bearing pole (old); thick pole; bar; rod; thick line

Words starting with 斜杠

• 斜杠青年xié gàng qīng niányoung person who pursues multiple careers simultaneously; a young slashie

Words containing 斜杠

• 反斜杠fǎn xié gàngbackslash (computing)

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