Hakka
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Hakkas,
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Hakka
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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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That is in part because his mother, from southern Taiwan, is Hakka, a people that began migrating from the mainland as early as the 17th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
A member of the Hakka Chinese community, Mr Hou's family moved from India to Canada in the 1980s and then to the US.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2023
"Here, no matter what language everyone uses - Taiwanese, Hakka, indigenous languages, Mandarin, English and Japanese, - they can all sing freely, which also brings us together."
From Reuters ● Jul. 2, 2023
Taiwanese people — who typically speak the Taiwanese or Hakka dialects at home — are sometimes called benshengren, or people from this province.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2022
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
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
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
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 Augustus F. Lindley
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