HSK 3.0 Level 4 · People

另 lìng “another” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 另 means

  1. another
  2. other
  3. separately
  4. separate

How to say 另

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale另lìng4th tone, falling

另 in a sentence

  1. 我另有计划。

    Wǒ lìng yǒu jìhuà.

    I have other plans.

    Sentence #5617206 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 一个是新的，另一个是旧的。

    Yí ge shì xīn de, lìng yí ge shì jiù de.

    One is new; the other is old.

    Sentence #334784 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你另一个弟弟在哪里？

    Nǐ lìng yí ge dìdi zài nǎlǐ?

    Where’s your other younger brother?

    Sentence #4019078 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 另 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 另 (lìng) with each of its parts in a different colour
另lìngother
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 力strength · lì

How to write 另

另 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

另 (lìng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 另 (lìng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 另

Words with 另

另外lìngwài · additional

More words: People & Pronouns

男生nánshēng · male student名人míngrén · celebrity游客yóukè · tourist此cǐ · this各位gèwèi · everyone (polite address)

FAQs

另 (lìng) means “another” or “other”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it lìng: lìng with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 另 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ling with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 另 from the suggestions. Typing ling into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
另 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.