Hakka

See also: hakka

English

Etymology

From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

Hakka (not comparable)

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

Translations

of the Hakka people

• Burmese: စက (ca.ka.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 客家 (haak³ gaa¹)

  Hakka: 客家 (Hak-kâ)

  Hokkien: 客 (kheh), 客家 (zh-min-nan) (kheh-ka)

  Mandarin: 客家 (zh) (Kèjiā)

• Japanese: ハッカ (Hakka), 客家 (Hakka)
• Khmer: ខិក (khək)
• Korean: 하카 (haka)
• Portuguese: hakka (pt)
• Russian: ха́кка (ru) (xákka)
• Thai: ฮากกา (th) (hâakgaa)
• Vietnamese: Khách Gia, Hẹ
• Zhuang: Maxgai

Noun

Hakka (plural Hakkas)

1. A person of Hakka descent.

Translations

a member of an ethnic group

• Burmese: စကလူမျိုး (ca.ka.lu-myui:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 客家人 (haak³ gaa¹ jan⁴)

  Hakka: 客人 (Hak-ngìn), 客家人 (Hak-kâ-ngìn)

  Hokkien: 客人 (zh-min-nan) (Kheh-lâng), 客人仔 (Kheh-lâng-á), 客家人 (Kheh-ka-lâng)

  Mandarin: 客家人 (zh) (kèjiārén)

• Portuguese: hakka (pt) m or f
• Russian: ха́кка (ru) m or f (xákka)
• Vietnamese: người Khách Gia
• Zhuang: vunz Maxgai

Proper noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Hakka (Kejia) language

• Burmese: စကစကား (ca.ka.ca.ka:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 客家話／客家话 (haak³ gaa¹ waa^6-2)

  Hakka: 客家話／客家话 (Hak-kâ-fa), 客話／客话 (Hak-fa)

  Hokkien: 客話／客话 (zh-min-nan) (Kheh-ōe), 客家語／客家语 (Kheh-ka-gí, Kheh-ka-gú)

  Mandarin: 客家話／客家话 (zh) (kèjiāhuà), 客家語／客家语 (zh) (kèjiāyǔ), 客語／客语 (zh) (kèyǔ)

• French: hakka (fr) m
• Irish: Haicéis f
• Japanese: 客家語 (ja) (Hakka-go)
• Korean: 하카어 (Haka'eo)
• Malay: bahasa Hakka
• Marathi: हाक्का f (hākkā)
• Russian: ха́кка (ru) m (xákka), кэцзяхуа́ m (kɛczjaxuá), кэцзя́ m (kɛczjá)
• Swedish: hakka (sv)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Khách Gia
• Zhuang: vah Maxgai

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.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hakka terms

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Hakka n

1. Hakka (language)