客家话

客家話

Kèjiāhuà

noun

Meanings

1 Hakka dialect
2 Hakka language

Characters

speech, language

Examples

他在家跟爷爷奶奶说客家话。

Tā zài jiā gēn yéye nǎinai shuō Kèjiāhuà.

He speaks Hakka with his grandparents at home.

客家话跟普通话差别很大。

Kèjiāhuà gēn Pǔtōnghuà chābié hěn dà.

Hakka is very different from Mandarin.

Tips

culture

Spoken by the Hakka (客家) people, concentrated in Guangdong (Meizhou), Fujian, Jiangxi, Taiwan, and the diaspora. Preserves many Middle Chinese features; mutually unintelligible with Mandarin.

Stroke Order

客 kè

家 jiā

话 huà