斜槓

Chinese

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiégàng

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˊ ㄍㄤˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiégàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ ㄍㄤˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siégàng
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh²-kang⁴
    • Yale: syé-gàng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyeganq
    • Palladius: сеган (segan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵ kɑŋ⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiégàngr
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ ㄍㄤˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siégàngr
    • Wade–Giles: hsieh²-kang⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: syé-gàngr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyeganql
    • Palladius: сеганр (seganr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵ kɑ̃ɻ⁵¹/

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)

   • 想成為斜槓族，必須同時兼顧正職與兼職的工作內容，或是掌握多份兼職作業，才能讓收入維持在穩定狀態。 [MSC, trad.]
     想成为斜杠族，必须同时兼顾正职与兼职的工作内容，或是掌握多份兼职作业，才能让收入维持在稳定状态。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2021 June 17, 紅崴專欄, 想當斜槓族？一篇了解斜槓定義與方法，打造彈性生活、享有財富自由

     Xiǎng chéngwèi xiégàng zú, bìxū tóngshí jiāngù zhèngzhí yǔ jiānzhí de gōngzuò nèiróng, huòshì zhǎngwò duō fèn jiānzhí zuòyè, cáinéng ràng shōurù wéichí zài wěndìng zhuàngtài. [Pinyin]

     If you want to be a slash guy, you have to take care of your main job and part-time job both, or all of your part-time jobs, to make your income stable.

   • 媒體老闆很多都是財團出身，媒體只是他們一個「副業」而已。可以說是非常的…斜槓 [MSC, trad.]
     媒体老板很多都是财团出身，媒体只是他们一个「副业」而已。可以说是非常的…斜杠 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2020 July 13, 方君竹, 口水滿天飛！台灣媒體如何變成財團的「官方粉絲團」？【記者真心話】Vol.5, in 公視P#新聞實驗室

     Méitǐ lǎobǎn hěnduō dōu shì cáituán chūshēn, méitǐ zhǐshì tāmen yīge “fùyè” éryǐ. Kěyǐshuō shì fēicháng de... Xiégàng [Pinyin]

     Lots of bosses in the media industry do have enterprise backgrounds. For them, the media industry is just one of their sidelines. It can be said that they are very... slash.

Derived terms

• 反斜槓／反斜杠 (fǎnxiégàng)
• 斜槓族／斜杠族 (xiégàngzú)