Hakka

From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑkə/
• Homophone: haka

Hakka (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (Kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.

Hakka (plural Hakkas)

1. A person of Hakka descent.

Hakka

1. 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^[1], 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^[2] (Blog), archived from the original on February 07, 2024‎^[3]:

     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, →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.

• Hakkanese
• (from Mandarin) Kejia
• (from Hokkien) Khek

• 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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Hakka n

1. Hakka (language)