Hakka

Other forms: Hakkas

Definitions of Hakka
  1. noun
    a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century
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    type of:
    Chinese
    a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
  2. noun
    a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka
    synonyms: Hakka dialect
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    type of:
    Chinese
    any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
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