Hakka

[ hah-kuh; Chinese hahk-kah ]

noun

, plural Hak·kas, (especially collectively) Hak·ka

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.

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

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

From BBC

"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

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

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