Definition of Hakka in English:

Hakka

nounPlural Hakkasˈhakəˈhakə

1A member of a people of south-eastern China, especially Canton, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, who migrated from the north during the 12th century.
客家人（指12世纪时从北方移居至东南部的中国人）
Example sentencesExamples
- Among the best known Chinese leaders of the twentieth century, Sun Yat-sen, Deng Xiaoping, Zhu De, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang are all found to be Hakkas.
- He also listed various Hakka merits during the speech and asked Taiwanese society to emulate the Hakka's hard-working spirit to deal with the various challenges facing the nation.
- It said 43.8 percent of those of Hoklo ethnicity consider themselves both Taiwanese and Chinese, while 43.8 percent of Hakka do.
- In Taiwan, about 15% of the people are mainlanders and another 15% are Hakkas.
- During the confrontation across the Taiwan strait in 1996, a Taiwanese colleague muttered to me that it was ‘a fight between two old Hakkas.’
- There are four major ethnic groups in Taiwan, namely the Aboriginals, the Hoklo, the Hakka, and the most recent immigrants from China.
- The Council for Hakka Affairs could also help with Council for Cultural Affairs projects in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli, where a lot of Hakkas live, Tchen said.
- The Hakkas, usually mistakenly regarded as a minority race in China, are actually a unique ethnic sub-group of the majority Han nationality.
- Huang said that because she married a Hakka and her brother married a mainlander, she does not think about ethnic differences.
- My piece is based on the Hakka's hard-working and stoic spirit, and their wisdom in solving problems posed by nature.
- The Hakkas had been a persecuted minority in the north of China, who moved to the south and then across to the Pescadores Islands and on to Taiwan itself, where they were the first Chinese arrivals.
- Moreover, Hualien's four major ethnic groups - Hokkien, Hakka, Aboriginals and mainland Chinese - do not reflect the true population distribution elsewhere in Taiwan.
- Such language loss is even more serious among the Hakka and Aborigines.
- Earlier than the Fujianese, Hakkas - a semi-outcast group, originally perhaps from Henan, who had found their way to Guangdong - had migrated to Taiwan, where they still make up 10 to 15 per cent of the population.
- In the mountains were many mines, some recently opened and employing ‘incomers’, a word which usually indicates the Hakkas, though some may have been aborigines.
- Although Hakkas are not the only tea farmers in Taiwan, they are the only group to blend tea into their music and culture.
- There are about 4 million Hakkas nationwide, representing 15 percent of Taiwan's population.
- Both opinions reveal a flimsy understanding of Hakka participation in social and political life in Taiwan, the role Hakka have played in Taiwan's recent democratization, and even sometimes purposeful distortions of the truth.
- Besides the voters who have long opposed Lee, minority groups such as the Hakka also joined in Soong's anti-Lee Teng-hui campaign.
- Yeh said that the trees, also know as paulownia trees in English, used to be an important source of income for the Hakka.
2mass noun The dialect of Chinese spoken by the Hakka, with about 27 million speakers.
客家话。亦称KEJIA
Also called Kejia
Example sentencesExamples
- The proposed law would prohibit discrimination against court testimonies given in local languages - Hoklo, Hakka and a dozen Aboriginal languages.
- The Ministry of Education has decided to make it compulsory for primary school children to learn one of Taiwan's three native languages - Taiwanese, Hakka or an Aboriginal language - beginning in 2001.
- As a result, more conversation in Mandarin and other Chinese-language music was heard - including Hakka - during ICRT's regular programming.
- As for the teaching and learning of Hakka, there is 90 percent compatibility between Tongyong and Hakka.
- The main varieties of ‘Chinese’ (Cantonese, Hakka, Hsiang, Kan, Mandarin, Min, and Wu) are as distinct from one another as English from Danish or German.
- Sorry, I can't speak Hakka but I can swear in Hokkien.
- Its primary official language, naturally, would be Hokkien, but it would do well to consider elevating Hakka, Mandarin and Paiwan (the largest Aboriginal group in the new state) to official status as well.
- Some speakers of Hakka - the second most prominent dialect in Taiwan, spoken by one-fifth of the population - also disputed the use of Taiwanese in the examinations.
- Some also asked whether commercials in Hakka and other languages should also be created in the interest of fairness.
- After coming to Taiwan, he also began to learn to speak Taiwanese and Hakka.
- My wife would pretend she didn't hear the children's words if they were not spoken in Hakka.
- One problem about such a system is that it will make the Examination Yuan's task significantly harder; it will have to set and mark exams not only in Mandarin but also Hoklo, Hakka and any of the 12 recognized Aboriginal languages.
- Each episode will be an hour long with Hakka as its main language.
- Chen yesterday presided over a ceremony marking the transition of the National Lien-Ho Institute of Technology to the status of a university - the first university to open in Miaoli County, where most residents speak Hakka.
- Speaking exclusively in Hakka, Lien went on to say that Taiwanese people should identify with each other and respect each other, and that politicians should not try to deepen the rift between the races.
- ‘I consider myself lucky because I don't have to overcome the language barrier because I spoke Hakka at home in Indonesia and learned to speak Mandarin by watching TV,’ she said.
- First and foremost, the system's function is to facilitate the learning of the languages used in Taiwan: Mandarin, Holo, Hakka, etc.
- The proposed national languages development law would guarantee equal respect for all Taiwanese tongues, such as Hakka, Hoklo and all Aboriginal languages, Chen said.
- Although both teenagers speak Cantonese and Hakka at home, they are more comfortable with English.
- Gazing at the flag fluttering in the wind on the sunny day, five young women recited a declaration of Taiwan's independence in Hoklo, Hakka, Mandarin, Amis and English, while a Presbyterian Church minister said a prayer for Taiwan.

adjectiveˈhakəˈhakə

Relating to the Hakka or their language.
（与）客家人（有关）的；（与）客家话（有关）的
the Hakka language and culture
Example sentencesExamples
- In addition to Hokkien-language songs, they may also include songs in Hakka and Aboriginal languages, Yang added.
- The Dutch East India Company encouraged Chinese migration in order to increase agricultural production, and the numbers of Fujianese and Hakka settlers grew to some 200,000 by the end of the Dutch period.
- The oil extracted from the seeds was used as a key ingredient for varnish and it remains a must for Hakka people who produce hand-made umbrellas with oil paper.
- This tradition is reflected in Hakka food, which emphasizes original flavours and nutritional value rather than a brilliant appearance.
- The Hakka Perspective will run as a 26-episode program on Hakka language television channels sometime after July.
- The foods include Hakka lunchboxes and other items such as Hakka-style moichi (glutinous rice balls), laichai popsicles, garlic blossom tea and garlic pig intestine potato chips.
- Lai Hao-min is a famous lawyer and Hakka leader.
- Huang said the logo's four colors - brown, blue, orange, white - represent the island's four major ethnic groups, Taiwanese, mainlanders, Hakka people and aboriginal tribes.
- Even in the most prosperous Hakka houses the women still spun and sewed.
- Lian Ho University plans to set up a graduate research institute for Hakka culture in August, university president Chin Tsung-shune told the Taipei Times yesterday.
- He said the long-standing conflicts between the Minnan and Hakka people derived from mutual miscommunication due to language and cultural barriers.
- Eventually, the government would like to see public television offer a wide variety of shows such as Hakka and Aboriginal programs, she said.
- Labor Exchange cleverly seizes the essential elements of rock as well as Hakka language and music.
- We hope to present the new appearance of Hakka culture to the public.
- The Council for Hakka Affairs has then seized upon the flower's blooming season as an opportunity to showcase Hakka culture and give tourists one more reason to head for the hills on their days off.
- Yau remembers his grandfather cooking Hakka food, typified as ‘the very freshest vegetables, because we grew them, and hardly any meat, probably because we couldn't afford it’.
- The 10 songs on the album describe a variety of experiences by laborers in different working environments, such as Hakka farmers, Aboriginal workers, snack-bar owners and others.
- This consists of Chinese, Aboriginal, Hakka, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese cultures.
- The early Hakkas were thought to have ‘royal blood’ and while maintaining their Han culture, Hakka people married into other ethnic groups and adopted something of other cultures during their long history of migration.
- ‘The priority of the commission is to preserve the Hakka language in order to revitalize Hakka culture,’ Liu said.

Origin

From Chinese (Cantonese dialect) haàk ka 'stranger'.

Rhymes

alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, claqueur, Dhaka, hacker, lacquer, maraca, paca, packer, sifaka, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, whacker, yakka

Definition of Hakka in US English:

Hakka

nounˈhakə

1A member of a people of southeastern China, especially Canton, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, who migrated from the north during the 12th century.
客家人（指12世纪时从北方移居至东南部的中国人）
Example sentencesExamples
- Besides the voters who have long opposed Lee, minority groups such as the Hakka also joined in Soong's anti-Lee Teng-hui campaign.
- Yeh said that the trees, also know as paulownia trees in English, used to be an important source of income for the Hakka.
- During the confrontation across the Taiwan strait in 1996, a Taiwanese colleague muttered to me that it was ‘a fight between two old Hakkas.’
- Huang said that because she married a Hakka and her brother married a mainlander, she does not think about ethnic differences.
- Such language loss is even more serious among the Hakka and Aborigines.
- The Hakkas, usually mistakenly regarded as a minority race in China, are actually a unique ethnic sub-group of the majority Han nationality.
- There are about 4 million Hakkas nationwide, representing 15 percent of Taiwan's population.
- He also listed various Hakka merits during the speech and asked Taiwanese society to emulate the Hakka's hard-working spirit to deal with the various challenges facing the nation.
- Moreover, Hualien's four major ethnic groups - Hokkien, Hakka, Aboriginals and mainland Chinese - do not reflect the true population distribution elsewhere in Taiwan.
- It said 43.8 percent of those of Hoklo ethnicity consider themselves both Taiwanese and Chinese, while 43.8 percent of Hakka do.
- In Taiwan, about 15% of the people are mainlanders and another 15% are Hakkas.
- Both opinions reveal a flimsy understanding of Hakka participation in social and political life in Taiwan, the role Hakka have played in Taiwan's recent democratization, and even sometimes purposeful distortions of the truth.
- Although Hakkas are not the only tea farmers in Taiwan, they are the only group to blend tea into their music and culture.
- The Council for Hakka Affairs could also help with Council for Cultural Affairs projects in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli, where a lot of Hakkas live, Tchen said.
- There are four major ethnic groups in Taiwan, namely the Aboriginals, the Hoklo, the Hakka, and the most recent immigrants from China.
- In the mountains were many mines, some recently opened and employing ‘incomers’, a word which usually indicates the Hakkas, though some may have been aborigines.
- The Hakkas had been a persecuted minority in the north of China, who moved to the south and then across to the Pescadores Islands and on to Taiwan itself, where they were the first Chinese arrivals.
- My piece is based on the Hakka's hard-working and stoic spirit, and their wisdom in solving problems posed by nature.
- Among the best known Chinese leaders of the twentieth century, Sun Yat-sen, Deng Xiaoping, Zhu De, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang are all found to be Hakkas.
- Earlier than the Fujianese, Hakkas - a semi-outcast group, originally perhaps from Henan, who had found their way to Guangdong - had migrated to Taiwan, where they still make up 10 to 15 per cent of the population.
2The dialect of Chinese spoken by the Hakka.
客家话。亦称KEJIA
Example sentencesExamples
- As a result, more conversation in Mandarin and other Chinese-language music was heard - including Hakka - during ICRT's regular programming.
- Although both teenagers speak Cantonese and Hakka at home, they are more comfortable with English.
- As for the teaching and learning of Hakka, there is 90 percent compatibility between Tongyong and Hakka.
- Some also asked whether commercials in Hakka and other languages should also be created in the interest of fairness.
- Some speakers of Hakka - the second most prominent dialect in Taiwan, spoken by one-fifth of the population - also disputed the use of Taiwanese in the examinations.
- The proposed law would prohibit discrimination against court testimonies given in local languages - Hoklo, Hakka and a dozen Aboriginal languages.
- Chen yesterday presided over a ceremony marking the transition of the National Lien-Ho Institute of Technology to the status of a university - the first university to open in Miaoli County, where most residents speak Hakka.
- Each episode will be an hour long with Hakka as its main language.
- ‘I consider myself lucky because I don't have to overcome the language barrier because I spoke Hakka at home in Indonesia and learned to speak Mandarin by watching TV,’ she said.
- First and foremost, the system's function is to facilitate the learning of the languages used in Taiwan: Mandarin, Holo, Hakka, etc.
- One problem about such a system is that it will make the Examination Yuan's task significantly harder; it will have to set and mark exams not only in Mandarin but also Hoklo, Hakka and any of the 12 recognized Aboriginal languages.
- The main varieties of ‘Chinese’ (Cantonese, Hakka, Hsiang, Kan, Mandarin, Min, and Wu) are as distinct from one another as English from Danish or German.
- My wife would pretend she didn't hear the children's words if they were not spoken in Hakka.
- After coming to Taiwan, he also began to learn to speak Taiwanese and Hakka.
- Speaking exclusively in Hakka, Lien went on to say that Taiwanese people should identify with each other and respect each other, and that politicians should not try to deepen the rift between the races.
- Gazing at the flag fluttering in the wind on the sunny day, five young women recited a declaration of Taiwan's independence in Hoklo, Hakka, Mandarin, Amis and English, while a Presbyterian Church minister said a prayer for Taiwan.
- Its primary official language, naturally, would be Hokkien, but it would do well to consider elevating Hakka, Mandarin and Paiwan (the largest Aboriginal group in the new state) to official status as well.
- Sorry, I can't speak Hakka but I can swear in Hokkien.
- The proposed national languages development law would guarantee equal respect for all Taiwanese tongues, such as Hakka, Hoklo and all Aboriginal languages, Chen said.
- The Ministry of Education has decided to make it compulsory for primary school children to learn one of Taiwan's three native languages - Taiwanese, Hakka or an Aboriginal language - beginning in 2001.

adjectiveˈhakə

Relating to the Hakka or their language.
（与）客家人（有关）的；（与）客家话（有关）的
the Hakka language and culture
Example sentencesExamples
- Labor Exchange cleverly seizes the essential elements of rock as well as Hakka language and music.
- Lian Ho University plans to set up a graduate research institute for Hakka culture in August, university president Chin Tsung-shune told the Taipei Times yesterday.
- The Hakka Perspective will run as a 26-episode program on Hakka language television channels sometime after July.
- Eventually, the government would like to see public television offer a wide variety of shows such as Hakka and Aboriginal programs, she said.
- This consists of Chinese, Aboriginal, Hakka, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese cultures.
- Even in the most prosperous Hakka houses the women still spun and sewed.
- We hope to present the new appearance of Hakka culture to the public.
- The Dutch East India Company encouraged Chinese migration in order to increase agricultural production, and the numbers of Fujianese and Hakka settlers grew to some 200,000 by the end of the Dutch period.
- Huang said the logo's four colors - brown, blue, orange, white - represent the island's four major ethnic groups, Taiwanese, mainlanders, Hakka people and aboriginal tribes.
- This tradition is reflected in Hakka food, which emphasizes original flavours and nutritional value rather than a brilliant appearance.
- Lai Hao-min is a famous lawyer and Hakka leader.
- The oil extracted from the seeds was used as a key ingredient for varnish and it remains a must for Hakka people who produce hand-made umbrellas with oil paper.
- ‘The priority of the commission is to preserve the Hakka language in order to revitalize Hakka culture,’ Liu said.
- The 10 songs on the album describe a variety of experiences by laborers in different working environments, such as Hakka farmers, Aboriginal workers, snack-bar owners and others.
- The foods include Hakka lunchboxes and other items such as Hakka-style moichi (glutinous rice balls), laichai popsicles, garlic blossom tea and garlic pig intestine potato chips.
- In addition to Hokkien-language songs, they may also include songs in Hakka and Aboriginal languages, Yang added.
- Yau remembers his grandfather cooking Hakka food, typified as ‘the very freshest vegetables, because we grew them, and hardly any meat, probably because we couldn't afford it’.
- The Council for Hakka Affairs has then seized upon the flower's blooming season as an opportunity to showcase Hakka culture and give tourists one more reason to head for the hills on their days off.
- The early Hakkas were thought to have ‘royal blood’ and while maintaining their Han culture, Hakka people married into other ethnic groups and adopted something of other cultures during their long history of migration.
- He said the long-standing conflicts between the Minnan and Hakka people derived from mutual miscommunication due to language and cultural barriers.

Origin

From Chinese ( Cantonese dialect) haàk ka ‘stranger’.

词汇	Hakka
释义	Definition of Hakka in English: Hakka nounPlural Hakkasˈhakəˈhakə 1A member of a people of south-eastern China, especially Canton, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, who migrated from the north during the 12th century. 客家人（指12世纪时从北方移居至东南部的中国人） Example sentencesExamples Among the best known Chinese leaders of the twentieth century, Sun Yat-sen, Deng Xiaoping, Zhu De, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang are all found to be Hakkas. He also listed various Hakka merits during the speech and asked Taiwanese society to emulate the Hakka's hard-working spirit to deal with the various challenges facing the nation. It said 43.8 percent of those of Hoklo ethnicity consider themselves both Taiwanese and Chinese, while 43.8 percent of Hakka do. In Taiwan, about 15% of the people are mainlanders and another 15% are Hakkas. During the confrontation across the Taiwan strait in 1996, a Taiwanese colleague muttered to me that it was ‘a fight between two old Hakkas.’ There are four major ethnic groups in Taiwan, namely the Aboriginals, the Hoklo, the Hakka, and the most recent immigrants from China. The Council for Hakka Affairs could also help with Council for Cultural Affairs projects in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli, where a lot of Hakkas live, Tchen said. The Hakkas, usually mistakenly regarded as a minority race in China, are actually a unique ethnic sub-group of the majority Han nationality. Huang said that because she married a Hakka and her brother married a mainlander, she does not think about ethnic differences. My piece is based on the Hakka's hard-working and stoic spirit, and their wisdom in solving problems posed by nature. The Hakkas had been a persecuted minority in the north of China, who moved to the south and then across to the Pescadores Islands and on to Taiwan itself, where they were the first Chinese arrivals. Moreover, Hualien's four major ethnic groups - Hokkien, Hakka, Aboriginals and mainland Chinese - do not reflect the true population distribution elsewhere in Taiwan. Such language loss is even more serious among the Hakka and Aborigines. Earlier than the Fujianese, Hakkas - a semi-outcast group, originally perhaps from Henan, who had found their way to Guangdong - had migrated to Taiwan, where they still make up 10 to 15 per cent of the population. In the mountains were many mines, some recently opened and employing ‘incomers’, a word which usually indicates the Hakkas, though some may have been aborigines. Although Hakkas are not the only tea farmers in Taiwan, they are the only group to blend tea into their music and culture. There are about 4 million Hakkas nationwide, representing 15 percent of Taiwan's population. Both opinions reveal a flimsy understanding of Hakka participation in social and political life in Taiwan, the role Hakka have played in Taiwan's recent democratization, and even sometimes purposeful distortions of the truth. Besides the voters who have long opposed Lee, minority groups such as the Hakka also joined in Soong's anti-Lee Teng-hui campaign. Yeh said that the trees, also know as paulownia trees in English, used to be an important source of income for the Hakka. 2mass noun The dialect of Chinese spoken by the Hakka, with about 27 million speakers. 客家话。亦称KEJIA Also called Kejia Example sentencesExamples The proposed law would prohibit discrimination against court testimonies given in local languages - Hoklo, Hakka and a dozen Aboriginal languages. The Ministry of Education has decided to make it compulsory for primary school children to learn one of Taiwan's three native languages - Taiwanese, Hakka or an Aboriginal language - beginning in 2001. As a result, more conversation in Mandarin and other Chinese-language music was heard - including Hakka - during ICRT's regular programming. As for the teaching and learning of Hakka, there is 90 percent compatibility between Tongyong and Hakka. The main varieties of ‘Chinese’ (Cantonese, Hakka, Hsiang, Kan, Mandarin, Min, and Wu) are as distinct from one another as English from Danish or German. Sorry, I can't speak Hakka but I can swear in Hokkien. Its primary official language, naturally, would be Hokkien, but it would do well to consider elevating Hakka, Mandarin and Paiwan (the largest Aboriginal group in the new state) to official status as well. Some speakers of Hakka - the second most prominent dialect in Taiwan, spoken by one-fifth of the population - also disputed the use of Taiwanese in the examinations. Some also asked whether commercials in Hakka and other languages should also be created in the interest of fairness. After coming to Taiwan, he also began to learn to speak Taiwanese and Hakka. My wife would pretend she didn't hear the children's words if they were not spoken in Hakka. One problem about such a system is that it will make the Examination Yuan's task significantly harder; it will have to set and mark exams not only in Mandarin but also Hoklo, Hakka and any of the 12 recognized Aboriginal languages. Each episode will be an hour long with Hakka as its main language. Chen yesterday presided over a ceremony marking the transition of the National Lien-Ho Institute of Technology to the status of a university - the first university to open in Miaoli County, where most residents speak Hakka. Speaking exclusively in Hakka, Lien went on to say that Taiwanese people should identify with each other and respect each other, and that politicians should not try to deepen the rift between the races. ‘I consider myself lucky because I don't have to overcome the language barrier because I spoke Hakka at home in Indonesia and learned to speak Mandarin by watching TV,’ she said. First and foremost, the system's function is to facilitate the learning of the languages used in Taiwan: Mandarin, Holo, Hakka, etc. The proposed national languages development law would guarantee equal respect for all Taiwanese tongues, such as Hakka, Hoklo and all Aboriginal languages, Chen said. Although both teenagers speak Cantonese and Hakka at home, they are more comfortable with English. Gazing at the flag fluttering in the wind on the sunny day, five young women recited a declaration of Taiwan's independence in Hoklo, Hakka, Mandarin, Amis and English, while a Presbyterian Church minister said a prayer for Taiwan. adjectiveˈhakəˈhakə Relating to the Hakka or their language. （与）客家人（有关）的；（与）客家话（有关）的 the Hakka language and culture Example sentencesExamples In addition to Hokkien-language songs, they may also include songs in Hakka and Aboriginal languages, Yang added. The Dutch East India Company encouraged Chinese migration in order to increase agricultural production, and the numbers of Fujianese and Hakka settlers grew to some 200,000 by the end of the Dutch period. The oil extracted from the seeds was used as a key ingredient for varnish and it remains a must for Hakka people who produce hand-made umbrellas with oil paper. This tradition is reflected in Hakka food, which emphasizes original flavours and nutritional value rather than a brilliant appearance. The Hakka Perspective will run as a 26-episode program on Hakka language television channels sometime after July. The foods include Hakka lunchboxes and other items such as Hakka-style moichi (glutinous rice balls), laichai popsicles, garlic blossom tea and garlic pig intestine potato chips. Lai Hao-min is a famous lawyer and Hakka leader. Huang said the logo's four colors - brown, blue, orange, white - represent the island's four major ethnic groups, Taiwanese, mainlanders, Hakka people and aboriginal tribes. Even in the most prosperous Hakka houses the women still spun and sewed. Lian Ho University plans to set up a graduate research institute for Hakka culture in August, university president Chin Tsung-shune told the Taipei Times yesterday. He said the long-standing conflicts between the Minnan and Hakka people derived from mutual miscommunication due to language and cultural barriers. Eventually, the government would like to see public television offer a wide variety of shows such as Hakka and Aboriginal programs, she said. Labor Exchange cleverly seizes the essential elements of rock as well as Hakka language and music. We hope to present the new appearance of Hakka culture to the public. The Council for Hakka Affairs has then seized upon the flower's blooming season as an opportunity to showcase Hakka culture and give tourists one more reason to head for the hills on their days off. Yau remembers his grandfather cooking Hakka food, typified as ‘the very freshest vegetables, because we grew them, and hardly any meat, probably because we couldn't afford it’. The 10 songs on the album describe a variety of experiences by laborers in different working environments, such as Hakka farmers, Aboriginal workers, snack-bar owners and others. This consists of Chinese, Aboriginal, Hakka, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese cultures. The early Hakkas were thought to have ‘royal blood’ and while maintaining their Han culture, Hakka people married into other ethnic groups and adopted something of other cultures during their long history of migration. ‘The priority of the commission is to preserve the Hakka language in order to revitalize Hakka culture,’ Liu said. Origin From Chinese (Cantonese dialect) haàk ka 'stranger'. Rhymes alpaca, attacker, backer, clacker, claqueur, Dhaka, hacker, lacquer, maraca, paca, packer, sifaka, slacker, smacker, stacker, tacker, tracker, whacker, yakka Definition of Hakka in US English: Hakka nounˈhakə 1A member of a people of southeastern China, especially Canton, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, who migrated from the north during the 12th century. 客家人（指12世纪时从北方移居至东南部的中国人） Example sentencesExamples Besides the voters who have long opposed Lee, minority groups such as the Hakka also joined in Soong's anti-Lee Teng-hui campaign. Yeh said that the trees, also know as paulownia trees in English, used to be an important source of income for the Hakka. During the confrontation across the Taiwan strait in 1996, a Taiwanese colleague muttered to me that it was ‘a fight between two old Hakkas.’ Huang said that because she married a Hakka and her brother married a mainlander, she does not think about ethnic differences. Such language loss is even more serious among the Hakka and Aborigines. The Hakkas, usually mistakenly regarded as a minority race in China, are actually a unique ethnic sub-group of the majority Han nationality. There are about 4 million Hakkas nationwide, representing 15 percent of Taiwan's population. He also listed various Hakka merits during the speech and asked Taiwanese society to emulate the Hakka's hard-working spirit to deal with the various challenges facing the nation. Moreover, Hualien's four major ethnic groups - Hokkien, Hakka, Aboriginals and mainland Chinese - do not reflect the true population distribution elsewhere in Taiwan. It said 43.8 percent of those of Hoklo ethnicity consider themselves both Taiwanese and Chinese, while 43.8 percent of Hakka do. In Taiwan, about 15% of the people are mainlanders and another 15% are Hakkas. Both opinions reveal a flimsy understanding of Hakka participation in social and political life in Taiwan, the role Hakka have played in Taiwan's recent democratization, and even sometimes purposeful distortions of the truth. Although Hakkas are not the only tea farmers in Taiwan, they are the only group to blend tea into their music and culture. The Council for Hakka Affairs could also help with Council for Cultural Affairs projects in Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli, where a lot of Hakkas live, Tchen said. There are four major ethnic groups in Taiwan, namely the Aboriginals, the Hoklo, the Hakka, and the most recent immigrants from China. In the mountains were many mines, some recently opened and employing ‘incomers’, a word which usually indicates the Hakkas, though some may have been aborigines. The Hakkas had been a persecuted minority in the north of China, who moved to the south and then across to the Pescadores Islands and on to Taiwan itself, where they were the first Chinese arrivals. My piece is based on the Hakka's hard-working and stoic spirit, and their wisdom in solving problems posed by nature. Among the best known Chinese leaders of the twentieth century, Sun Yat-sen, Deng Xiaoping, Zhu De, Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang are all found to be Hakkas. Earlier than the Fujianese, Hakkas - a semi-outcast group, originally perhaps from Henan, who had found their way to Guangdong - had migrated to Taiwan, where they still make up 10 to 15 per cent of the population. 2The dialect of Chinese spoken by the Hakka. 客家话。亦称KEJIA Example sentencesExamples As a result, more conversation in Mandarin and other Chinese-language music was heard - including Hakka - during ICRT's regular programming. Although both teenagers speak Cantonese and Hakka at home, they are more comfortable with English. As for the teaching and learning of Hakka, there is 90 percent compatibility between Tongyong and Hakka. Some also asked whether commercials in Hakka and other languages should also be created in the interest of fairness. Some speakers of Hakka - the second most prominent dialect in Taiwan, spoken by one-fifth of the population - also disputed the use of Taiwanese in the examinations. The proposed law would prohibit discrimination against court testimonies given in local languages - Hoklo, Hakka and a dozen Aboriginal languages. Chen yesterday presided over a ceremony marking the transition of the National Lien-Ho Institute of Technology to the status of a university - the first university to open in Miaoli County, where most residents speak Hakka. Each episode will be an hour long with Hakka as its main language. ‘I consider myself lucky because I don't have to overcome the language barrier because I spoke Hakka at home in Indonesia and learned to speak Mandarin by watching TV,’ she said. First and foremost, the system's function is to facilitate the learning of the languages used in Taiwan: Mandarin, Holo, Hakka, etc. One problem about such a system is that it will make the Examination Yuan's task significantly harder; it will have to set and mark exams not only in Mandarin but also Hoklo, Hakka and any of the 12 recognized Aboriginal languages. The main varieties of ‘Chinese’ (Cantonese, Hakka, Hsiang, Kan, Mandarin, Min, and Wu) are as distinct from one another as English from Danish or German. My wife would pretend she didn't hear the children's words if they were not spoken in Hakka. After coming to Taiwan, he also began to learn to speak Taiwanese and Hakka. Speaking exclusively in Hakka, Lien went on to say that Taiwanese people should identify with each other and respect each other, and that politicians should not try to deepen the rift between the races. Gazing at the flag fluttering in the wind on the sunny day, five young women recited a declaration of Taiwan's independence in Hoklo, Hakka, Mandarin, Amis and English, while a Presbyterian Church minister said a prayer for Taiwan. Its primary official language, naturally, would be Hokkien, but it would do well to consider elevating Hakka, Mandarin and Paiwan (the largest Aboriginal group in the new state) to official status as well. Sorry, I can't speak Hakka but I can swear in Hokkien. The proposed national languages development law would guarantee equal respect for all Taiwanese tongues, such as Hakka, Hoklo and all Aboriginal languages, Chen said. The Ministry of Education has decided to make it compulsory for primary school children to learn one of Taiwan's three native languages - Taiwanese, Hakka or an Aboriginal language - beginning in 2001. adjectiveˈhakə Relating to the Hakka or their language. （与）客家人（有关）的；（与）客家话（有关）的 the Hakka language and culture Example sentencesExamples Labor Exchange cleverly seizes the essential elements of rock as well as Hakka language and music. Lian Ho University plans to set up a graduate research institute for Hakka culture in August, university president Chin Tsung-shune told the Taipei Times yesterday. The Hakka Perspective will run as a 26-episode program on Hakka language television channels sometime after July. Eventually, the government would like to see public television offer a wide variety of shows such as Hakka and Aboriginal programs, she said. This consists of Chinese, Aboriginal, Hakka, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese cultures. Even in the most prosperous Hakka houses the women still spun and sewed. We hope to present the new appearance of Hakka culture to the public. The Dutch East India Company encouraged Chinese migration in order to increase agricultural production, and the numbers of Fujianese and Hakka settlers grew to some 200,000 by the end of the Dutch period. Huang said the logo's four colors - brown, blue, orange, white - represent the island's four major ethnic groups, Taiwanese, mainlanders, Hakka people and aboriginal tribes. This tradition is reflected in Hakka food, which emphasizes original flavours and nutritional value rather than a brilliant appearance. Lai Hao-min is a famous lawyer and Hakka leader. The oil extracted from the seeds was used as a key ingredient for varnish and it remains a must for Hakka people who produce hand-made umbrellas with oil paper. ‘The priority of the commission is to preserve the Hakka language in order to revitalize Hakka culture,’ Liu said. The 10 songs on the album describe a variety of experiences by laborers in different working environments, such as Hakka farmers, Aboriginal workers, snack-bar owners and others. The foods include Hakka lunchboxes and other items such as Hakka-style moichi (glutinous rice balls), laichai popsicles, garlic blossom tea and garlic pig intestine potato chips. In addition to Hokkien-language songs, they may also include songs in Hakka and Aboriginal languages, Yang added. Yau remembers his grandfather cooking Hakka food, typified as ‘the very freshest vegetables, because we grew them, and hardly any meat, probably because we couldn't afford it’. The Council for Hakka Affairs has then seized upon the flower's blooming season as an opportunity to showcase Hakka culture and give tourists one more reason to head for the hills on their days off. The early Hakkas were thought to have ‘royal blood’ and while maintaining their Han culture, Hakka people married into other ethnic groups and adopted something of other cultures during their long history of migration. He said the long-standing conflicts between the Minnan and Hakka people derived from mutual miscommunication due to language and cultural barriers. Origin From Chinese ( Cantonese dialect) haàk ka ‘stranger’.
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