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Hakka
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hakka
English
Etymology
From en hak 客家 Hak-kâ.
Pronunciation
en /ˈhɑkə/ US,Canada
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hakka.wav Southern England
en haka
Adjective
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Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.
Translations
of the Hakka people
Burmese: my စက
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 客家 haak3 gaa1
Hakka: hak 客家 Hak-kâ
Hokkien: nan-hbl 客 kheh, nan-hbl 客家 kheh-ka
Mandarin: cmn 客家 Kèjiā
Japanese: ja ハッカ Hakka, ja 客家 Hakka
Khmer: km ខិក
Korean: ko 하카
Portuguese: pt hakka
Russian: ru ха́кка
Thai: th ฮากกา hâakgaa
Vietnamese: vi Khách Gia, vi Hẹ
Zhuang: za Maxgai
Noun
A person of Hakka descent.
Translations
a member of an ethnic group
Burmese: my စကလူမျိုး
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 客家人 haak3 gaa1 jan4
Hakka: hak 客人 Hak-ngìn, hak 客家人 Hak-kâ-ngìn
Hokkien: nan-hbl 客人 Kheh-lâng, nan-hbl 客人仔 Kheh-lâng-á, nan-hbl 客家人 Kheh-ka-lâng
Mandarin: cmn 客家人 kèjiārén
Kavalan: ckv paRin
Portuguese: pt hakka m f
Russian: ru ха́кка m f
Vietnamese: vi người Khách Gia
Zhuang: za vunz Maxgai
Proper noun
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.
en 1977 May w:Rewi Alley Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1977-05_16_5/ XVI 5 Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 16 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1977-05_16_5/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.
en April 28, 2011 John MacMillan A day in Cingcyuan a tiny revolution https://web.archive.org/web/20240207121806/https://atinyrevolution27.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/a-day-in-cingcyuan/ February 07, 2024 https://atinyrevolution27.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/a-day-in-cingcyuan/ Blog 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.
en 2019 Li Huang; James Lambert Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115 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
en Hakkanese
from Mandarin en Kejia
from Hokkien en Khek
Translations
Hakka (Kejia) language
Burmese: my စကစကား
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 客家話 haak3 gaa1 waa6-2
Hakka: hak 客家話 Hak-kâ-fa, hak 客話 Hak-fa
Hokkien: nan-hbl 客話 Kheh-ōe, nan-hbl 客家語 Kheh-ka-gí, Kheh-ka-gú
Mandarin: cmn 客家話 kèjiāhuà, cmn 客家語 kèjiāyǔ, cmn 客語 kèyǔ
French: fr hakka m
Irish: ga Haicéis f
Japanese: ja 客家語 Hakka-go
Korean: ko ^하카어
Malay: ms bahasa Hakka
Marathi: mr हाक्का f
Russian: ru ха́кка m, ru кэцзяхуа́ m, ru кэцзя́ m
Swedish: sv hakka
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Khách Gia
Zhuang: za vah Maxgai
Further reading
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Dutch
Pronunciation
nl Nl-Hakka.ogg
Proper noun
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en Hakka language
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