HAKKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hakka mean? 

• HAKKA (noun)
  The noun HAKKA has 2 senses:

1. a member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century

2. a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka

  Familiarity information: HAKKA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAKKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a people of southeastern China (especially Hong Kong, Canton, and Taiwan) who migrated from the north in the 12th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Hakka" is a kind of...):

Chinese (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Hakka; Hakka dialect

Hypernyms ("Hakka" is a kind 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)