| 释义 |
Hakka, n. (and a.)|ˈhækə|
[Chinese.]
A member of a people now dwelling in parts of southern China, especially in the province of Kwangtung or Canton, and in Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc.; also the dialect spoken by this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1867N. & Q. on China & Japan I. 66/2 It is a common saying among the Hakkas, that a Punti may study Hakka for many years, and yet not be able to speak it correctly. 1878H. A. Giles Gloss. of Reference 56 Hakkas, strangers. A race said to have migrated from the North of China (Kiangsu or Shantung) to the Kuang-tung province at the time of the Yuan dynasty AD 1206–1368. 1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 416/2 Hakkas from the vicinity of Swatow. 1881J. D. Ball Easy Sentences Hakka Dial. p. i, While engaged in my studies in the Hakka dialect I put the sentences in Giles' Handbook of the Swatow Dialect into Hakka. 1921Outward Bound July 17/1 He converses freely in Hakka, Cantonese, Mandarin [etc.]. 1926Blackw. Mag. Nov. 628/1 The Hakkas, as wood⁓cutters and hunters, had already penetrated into the foothills. 1964Asia Mag. 30 Aug. 5/1 (caption) Below is a Hakka woman in a work gang in K.L. 1968‘B. Mather’ Springers xviii. 196 The old man at the helm..looked like a Hakka to me. They are fishermen, and nobody's fools. 1971K. Hopkins Hong Kong 235 Cantonese is very much the predominant language but there are minorities who speak Hakka. 1971Nat. Geographic Oct. 550/1 (caption) Curtained hat identifies a Hakka farm-woman. A distinctive group of immigrant Chinese, Hakkas till hillsides in the New Territories. |