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HAKKA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka
Synonyms:
Hakka; Hakka dialect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Sense 2
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:
Hypernyms ("Hakka" is a kind of...):
Chinese (a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China)