Abstract: The Heath-Carter somatotyping method is used to study somatotypes of 304 urban adults (154 males and 150 females) of the Hakka from Jiangxi Province. The results are as follows. The mean somatotype values of males and females are 4.0-4.6-2.0 and 5.0-4.2 1.9, respectively, which represents the endomorphic-mesomorph category in males and mesomorphicendomorph category in females. The age of 30 is the cutoff point of this somatotype in urban Hakka, which shows somatotypic differences at about 30 years old. The somatotype of males and females show significant differences before 60 years old, but there were no significant differences after 60 years. Compared with other domestic Han ethnic groups, the male somatotype is close to that of the Han (Inner Mongolia), with females close to that of the Han (Yunnan). Male and female somatotypes of the urban Hakka are slender compared to other Han ethnic groups.

Key words: Somatotye; Heath-Carter; Urban; Hakka; Ganzhou; Jiangxi