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(lìng) - another, other, separately in Mandarin

lìng

Traditional: 另

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HSK 4
#432 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

another, other, separately

Word origin

另 means another, other or separately. It is usually analysed as a simple compound of 口 'mouth' over 力 'force', conventionally taken to mark setting something apart; the precise original sense is debated.

Origin
compound
Root
口 (mouth) over 力 (force)

Stroke order

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Examples

There is another method as well.

I have other plans.

Please find another time.

He has other plans.

Let us take another road.

另 (lìng) - another, other, separately.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 另.

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This word is part of lesson 9.