另
lìng HSK3

(bones), another

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Original meaning: bones

Variant of 冎. Pictograph of bones. Based on the original meaning "bones". The meaning later shifted to "separate", "other" and "another".

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangreːŋs

Sources

Character origin
The Outlier Linguistics Dictionary of Chinese Characters
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang