1. 1男女通用的、中性的(如:中性剪裁、男女皆宜的沙龍/廁所)

    Unisex describes something made for men and women alike — one design, one item, no separate version for each. It is used most about clothes, haircuts, perfume, and shops: a unisex T-shirt, a unisex salon, a unisex fragrance. It is also common on doors: a unisex toilet or unisex changing room is one that anybody can use, rather than two rooms marked men and women. The word has a slight flavour of the 1960s and 70s, when it was new and rather fashionable, and in clothing today many brands prefer "unisex" for plain practical items but say "gender-neutral" when they want to sound current and thoughtful. There is a small difference between the two that is worth hearing: "unisex" tends to mean one product that suits both, often by being simple and loose; "gender-neutral" is more about not assigning things to a gender at all. it sits before the noun almost all the time — we say "a unisex jacket" far more readily than "this jacket is unisex", though the second is not wrong.

組成uni-(一、單一)+ sex(性別)。So: one form for both sexes. The uni- piece is the same one in uniform (one shape), unicycle (one wheel), and universe.

同家族的字

  • uniformuni- (one) + form — one shape for everyone
  • unicycleuni- (one) + cycle — one wheel
  • uniquealso from Latin ūnus, "one" — one of a kind
  • unitefrom Latin ūnus — to make into one
  • universeuni- (one) + versus (turned) — everything turned into one whole