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having characteristics of both the male and female sex or of neither sex in particular 兼具男女两性特征的；缺乏性特征的 epicene beauty 兼具阳刚和阴柔之美
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grammar 语法 (of a word 词 having one form to represent male and female 通性的 You can write ‘s/he’ as an epicene pronoun when you are not referring to men or women in particular. 不特指男性或女性时可以写成 s/he 表示通性代词。
Word Originlate Middle English (as a grammatical term): via late Latin from Greek epikoinos (based on koinos ‘common’).