Hakka

American  

[hah-kuh, hahk-kah] / ˈhɑ kə, ˈhɑkˈkɑ /

noun

plural

Hakkas,

plural

Hakka

1. 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.

2. the Chinese language spoken by the Hakka.

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Example Sentences

DiGerlando took inspiration from the Chinese walled villages known as Hakka and English castles, as well as Scandinavian and Japanese design.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2023

The Cantonese migrants worked in carpentry and the ship-fitting industry, while the Hakka Chinese worked in the tannery and food business.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 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

Wong recalled a day earlier in a speech that her grandmother, of Hakka Chinese descent, had raised her children alone in Sabah after most of the family died in World War Two.

From Reuters • Jun. 30, 2022

Their leader, Hung Tsiuen, a Hakka or Romany, proclaimed himself as Tien Wang, which means the head of the Prince.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin