Hakka
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
Hakka (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.
Translations
of the Hakka people
Noun
Hakka (plural Hakkas)
- A person of Hakka descent.
Translations
a member of an ethnic group
Proper noun
Hakka
- A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia.
- 1977 May, Rewi Alley, “Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
- The first county centre gone through, that of Tsengcheng, was full of new construction. After it, the language on the road right on into the Meihsien prefecture was Hakka.
- 2011 April 28, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on February 07, 2024:
- We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 10:
- As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.
Synonyms
Translations
Hakka (Kejia) language
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Further reading
- Ethnologue entry for Hakka, hak
- “Hakka”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Hakka, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “Hakka”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Hakka”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Hakka” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
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Proper noun
Hakka n
- Hakka (language)