"Hakka" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈhɑkə/ [Canada, US]
Etymology: From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hak|客家|tr=Hak-kâ}} Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Hakka (not comparable)
  1. Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Ethnonyms Translations (of the Hakka people): စက (ca.ka.) (Burmese), 客家 (haak³ gaa¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 客家 (Kèjiā) (Chinese Mandarin), 客家 (Hak-kâ) (Hakka Chinese), ハッカ [Hakka] (Japanese), 客家 [Hakka] (Japanese), ខិក (khək) (Khmer), 하카 (haka) (Korean), (kheh) (Min Nan Chinese), 客家 (kheh-ka) (Min Nan Chinese), hakka (Portuguese), ха́кка (xákka) (Russian), ฮากกา (hâakgaa) (Thai), Khách Gia (Vietnamese), Hẹ (Vietnamese), Maxgai (Zhuang)
    Sense id: en-Hakka-en-adj-G6sEhraI Disambiguation of Ethnonyms: 66 21 13

Proper name

IPA: /ˈhɑkə/ [Canada, US]
Etymology: From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hak|客家|tr=Hak-kâ}} Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Hakka
  1. A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia. Categories (topical): Languages Synonyms: Hakkanese Synonyms (from Hokkien): Khek Synonyms (from Mandarin): Kejia Translations (Hakka (Kejia) language): စကစကား (ca.ka.ca.ka:) (Burmese), 客家話 (Chinese Cantonese), 客家话 (alt: haak³ gaa¹ waa⁶⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 客家話 (Chinese Mandarin), 客家话 (kèjiāhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 客家語 (Chinese Mandarin), 客家语 (kèjiāyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 客語 (Chinese Mandarin), 客语 (kèyǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), hakka [masculine] (French), 客家話 (Hakka Chinese), 客家话 (Hak-kâ-fa) (Hakka Chinese), 客話 (Hakka Chinese), 客话 (Hak-fa) (Hakka Chinese), Haicéis [feminine] (Irish), 客家語 (Hakka-go) (Japanese), 하카어 (Haka'eo) (Korean), bahasa Hakka (Malay), हाक्का (hākkā) [feminine] (Marathi), 客話 (Min Nan Chinese), 客话 (Kheh-ōe) (Min Nan Chinese), 客家語 (Min Nan Chinese), 客家语 (Kheh-ka-gí, Kheh-ka-gú) (Min Nan Chinese), ха́кка (xákka) [masculine] (Russian), кэцзяхуа́ (kɛczjaxuá) [masculine] (Russian), кэцзя́ (kɛczjá) [masculine] (Russian), hakka (Swedish), tiếng Khách Gia (Vietnamese), vah Maxgai (Zhuang)
    Sense id: en-Hakka-en-name-fkdHT7aq Disambiguation of Languages: 38 57 5

Noun

IPA: /ˈhɑkə/ [Canada, US] Forms: Hakkas [plural]
Etymology: From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|hak|客家|tr=Hak-kâ}} Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ) Head templates: {{en-noun}} Hakka (plural Hakkas)
  1. A person of Hakka descent. Translations (a member of an ethnic group): စကလူမျိုး (ca.ka.lu-myui:) (Burmese), 客家人 (haak³ gaa¹ jan⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 客家人 (kèjiārén) (Chinese Mandarin), 客人 (Hak-ngìn) (Hakka Chinese), 客家人 (Hak-kâ-ngìn) (Hakka Chinese), 客人 (Kheh-lâng) (Min Nan Chinese), 客人仔 (Kheh-lâng-á) (Min Nan Chinese), 客家人 (Kheh-ka-lâng) (Min Nan Chinese), hakka [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), ха́кка (xákka) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), người Khách Gia (Vietnamese), vunz Maxgai (Zhuang)
    Sense id: en-Hakka-en-noun-G~Vo1~Lx

Inflected forms

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          "code": "my",
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          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "hâakgaa",
          "sense": "of the Hakka people",
          "word": "ฮากกา"
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "of the Hakka people",
          "word": "Khách Gia"
        },
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "of the Hakka people",
          "word": "Hẹ"
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          "code": "za",
          "lang": "Zhuang",
          "sense": "of the Hakka people",
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          "code": "my",
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          "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
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          "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
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          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
          "word": "người Khách Gia"
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          "ref": "April 28, 2011, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on 2024-02-07",
          "text": "We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22.",
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          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10",
          "text": "As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.",
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          "Guangdong"
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          "word": "Hakkanese"
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        {
          "sense": "from Mandarin",
          "word": "Kejia"
        },
        {
          "sense": "from Hokkien",
          "word": "Khek"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "code": "my",
          "lang": "Burmese",
          "roman": "ca.ka.ca.ka:",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "စကစကား"
        },
        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家話"
        },
        {
          "alt": "haak³ gaa¹ waa⁶⁻²",
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家话"
        },
        {
          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家話"
        },
        {
          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "roman": "Hak-kâ-fa",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家话"
        },
        {
          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客話"
        },
        {
          "code": "hak",
          "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
          "roman": "Hak-fa",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客话"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家話"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kèjiāhuà",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家话"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家語"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kèjiāyǔ",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家语"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客語"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "kèyǔ",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客语"
        },
        {
          "code": "nan",
          "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客話"
        },
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          "code": "nan",
          "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
          "roman": "Kheh-ōe",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客话"
        },
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          "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家語"
        },
        {
          "code": "nan",
          "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
          "roman": "Kheh-ka-gí, Kheh-ka-gú",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家语"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Haicéis"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "Hakka-go",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "客家語"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "Haka'eo",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "하카어"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "bahasa Hakka"
        },
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          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
          "roman": "hākkā",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "हाक्का"
        },
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "xákka",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "ха́кка"
        },
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          "roman": "kɛczjaxuá",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "кэцзяхуа́"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kɛczjá",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "кэцзя́"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "hakka"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "tiếng Khách Gia"
        },
        {
          "code": "za",
          "lang": "Zhuang",
          "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
          "word": "vah Maxgai"
        }
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      "ipa": "/ˈhɑkə/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
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    },
    {
      "homophone": "haka"
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  "word": "Hakka"
}
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "客家",
          "客家#Chinese"
        ],
        [
          "ethnic group",
          "ethnic group"
        ],
        [
          "Han Chinese",
          "Han Chinese"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɑkə/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "haka"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "ca.ka.",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "စက"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "haak³ gaa¹",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "客家"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "Hak-kâ",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "客家"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Kèjiā",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "客家"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "roman": "kheh",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "客"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "roman": "kheh-ka",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "客家"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka"
      ],
      "word": "ハッカ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka"
      ],
      "word": "客家"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "khək",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "ខិក"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "haka",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "하카"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "hakka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xákka",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "ха́кка"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "hâakgaa",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "ฮากกา"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "Khách Gia"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "Hẹ"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "of the Hakka people",
      "word": "Maxgai"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hakka"
}

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    "en:Ethnonyms",
    "en:Languages"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hak",
        "3": "客家",
        "tr": "Hak-kâ"
      },
      "expansion": "Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Hakkas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Hakka (plural Hakkas)",
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A person of Hakka descent."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɑkə/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "haka"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "ca.ka.lu-myui:",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "စကလူမျိုး"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "haak³ gaa¹ jan⁴",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "客家人"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "Hak-ngìn",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "客人"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "Hak-kâ-ngìn",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "客家人"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kèjiārén",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "客家人"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "roman": "Kheh-lâng",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "客人"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "roman": "Kheh-lâng-á",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "客人仔"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "roman": "Kheh-ka-lâng",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "客家人"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hakka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xákka",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ха́кка"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "người Khách Gia"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "a member of an ethnic group",
      "word": "vunz Maxgai"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Hakka"
  ],
  "word": "Hakka"
}

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  "categories": [
    "en:Ethnonyms",
    "en:Languages"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "hak",
        "3": "客家",
        "tr": "Hak-kâ"
      },
      "expansion": "Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Hakka",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1977 May, Rewi Alley, “Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16",
          "text": "The first county centre gone through, that of Tsengcheng, was full of new construction. After it, the language on the road right on into the Meihsien prefecture was Hakka.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "April 28, 2011, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on 2024-02-07",
          "text": "We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10",
          "text": "As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Fujian",
          "Fujian"
        ],
        [
          "Jiangxi",
          "Jiangxi"
        ],
        [
          "Guangdong",
          "Guangdong"
        ],
        [
          "Guangxi",
          "Guangxi"
        ],
        [
          "Taiwan",
          "Taiwan"
        ],
        [
          "Hong Kong",
          "Hong Kong"
        ],
        [
          "Southeast Asia",
          "Southeast Asia"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɑkə/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "homophone": "haka"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Hakkanese"
    },
    {
      "sense": "from Mandarin",
      "word": "Kejia"
    },
    {
      "sense": "from Hokkien",
      "word": "Khek"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "my",
      "lang": "Burmese",
      "roman": "ca.ka.ca.ka:",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "စကစကား"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家話"
    },
    {
      "alt": "haak³ gaa¹ waa⁶⁻²",
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家话"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家話"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "Hak-kâ-fa",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家话"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客話"
    },
    {
      "code": "hak",
      "lang": "Hakka Chinese",
      "roman": "Hak-fa",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客话"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家話"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kèjiāhuà",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家话"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家語"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kèjiāyǔ",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家语"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客語"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kèyǔ",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客语"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客話"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "roman": "Kheh-ōe",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客话"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家語"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan",
      "lang": "Min Nan Chinese",
      "roman": "Kheh-ka-gí, Kheh-ka-gú",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家语"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hakka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Haicéis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Hakka-go",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "客家語"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "Haka'eo",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "하카어"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "bahasa Hakka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mr",
      "lang": "Marathi",
      "roman": "hākkā",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "हाक्का"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xákka",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ха́кка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kɛczjaxuá",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кэцзяхуа́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kɛczjá",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кэцзя́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "hakka"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "tiếng Khách Gia"
    },
    {
      "code": "za",
      "lang": "Zhuang",
      "sense": "Hakka (Kejia) language",
      "word": "vah Maxgai"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hakka"
}

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