Hakka
See also: hakka
English
Etymology
From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).
Pronunciation
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈhɑkə/
- Homophone: haka
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
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Noun
Hakka (plural Hakkas)
- A person of Hakka descent.
Translations
a member of an ethnic group
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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, Alley, Rewi, “Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, 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.
- 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI: , 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.
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Synonyms
- Hakkanese
- (from Mandarin) Kejia
- (from Hokkien) Khek
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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “Hakka”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “Hakka” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Hakka terms
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Hakka n
- Hakka (language)