Huwana

• Huana

Borrowed from Hokkien 番仔 (hoan-á), attested in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642) published in Manila, translated with Spanish Yndio (“native of the East Indies”).

• Hyphenation: Hu‧wa‧na
• IPA^(key): /huaˈna/, [hwɐˈna]

Huwaná (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜏᜈ)

1. (Chinese Filipino, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Filipino of native or non-Chinese descent (as opposed to a Filipino of ethnic Chinese descent or an ethnic Chinese)

   Coordinate terms: Tsinoy, Intsik, Tsekwa, Sanglay, Tsino, tsinito, tsinita

• Some Chinese Filipinos consider this word as crude and vulgar, comparable to the perception of the word Intsik (“Chinese”).

Borrowed from Spanish Juana.

• Hyphenation: Hu‧wa‧na
• IPA^(key): /huˈana/, [hʊˈa.nɐ]

Huwana (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜏᜈ)

1. Alternative form of Juana

• marihuwana

• Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum (in Early Modern Spanish & Early Manila Hokkien, with some Middle Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, O.P., 1626-1642, page 569/545; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中); Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁); José, Regalado Trota; Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles, Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co., page 529
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 132
• Zorc, David Paul (1982) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 171