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, 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:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, 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 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

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Hakka n

1. Hakka (language)