Hakka：Hakka people

Ethnic group native to southeastern China and Taiwan

Not to be confused with Hakha.

Ethnic group

Hakka peopleChinese客家Literal meaningguest familiesVietnamesengười Khách Gia, người Hẹ

The Hakka (Chinese: 客家), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han,[1][3] or Hakka Chinese,[4] or Hakkas, are a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose principal settlements and ancestral homes are dispersed widely across the provinces of southern China and who speak a language that is closely related to Gan, a Han Chinese dialect spoken in Jiangxi province. They are differentiated from other southern Han Chinese by their dispersed nature and tendency to occupy marginal lands and remote hilly areas. The Chinese characters for Hakka (客家) literally mean "guest families".[5]

The Hakka have settled in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Hainan, and Guizhou in China, as well as in Taoyuan City, Hsinchu County, Miaoli County, Pingtung County, and Kaohsiung City in Ta...