hapa
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hapa
First recorded in 1985–90; from Hawaiian Pidgin: “half”
Example Sentences
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In the interview for the magazine, Slaughter asked Momoa about being a "hapa man with a hapa family" and playing the first hapa superhero.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2023
There’s no character development to speak of, though the two nice sisters going gaga over the handsome hapa detective each make you root for them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
Tiller is Lee’s modern American Everyman: 20 years old, one-eighth Asian, and referred to, depending on where he is in the world, as hapa, haole and farang — mixed, nonnative, white.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
It stars an Asian American lead and features a biracial family with a white dad, a mother of Korean heritage, and hapa siblings.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2018
A ma kekahi po ae, i ka mahina e konane oluolu ana, i ka wa hapa o ka lai.
From The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by Beckwith, Martha Warren
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