hapa

[ hah-puh ]

noun
  1. (especially in Hawaii and California) a person of mixed-race heritage who identifies racially and culturally as both white and of Asian descent.

Origin of hapa

1
First recorded in 1985–90; from Hawaiian Pidgin: “half”

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