Hakka
Americannoun
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a member of a Chinese people originally of northern China, now widely distributed throughout southeastern China, in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and in Southeast Asia.
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the Chinese language spoken by the Hakka.
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What began as an attempt to unify the Chinese community in Singapore has proven so effective that, some argue, it has driven dialects like Teochew, Hokkien, Cantonese and Hakka into an irreversible decline.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
The awards celebrate not only Mandopop but also artists singing in Taiwanese - also known as Hokkien - Hakka and indigenous languages, a visible sign of the government's efforts to promote tongues other than Mandarin.
From Reuters ● Jul. 2, 2023
In Taiwan after World War II, the Nationalist government imposed Mandarin as the official language on a population that mostly spoke the Minnan or Hakka variants of Chinese.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
One of Chin’s ancestors prepares “good, solid Hakka soul food” to console a neighboring family whose child who died during the deadly 1918 flu epidemic.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
In southern and western China Hakka women and certain others never have their feet bound.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
Originally from mainland China, many Hakkas moved to Hong Kong in the 17th century, where they established fishing and farming villages, mostly in the New Territories.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2011
Most of the converts were Hakkas, members of an outsider ethnic group to which Hung himself belonged.
From Time Magazine Archive
What with famine poverty, and the corruption of the Manchus, the Hakkas were ripe for revolt.
From Time Magazine Archive
He traced the careers of many influential kiths, including the Jews, the Puritan New Englanders, the Mongols, the Hakkas of South China.
From Time Magazine Archive
In dire distress, the Hakkas sought a refuge among the God-worshippers, willingly adopting their religion.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Lindley, Augustus F.
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