另

Top mouth radical, a small square picturing an open mouth. In 另 it suggests a person speaking up to set something apart - to call out an alternative. The pairing of mouth above and strength below gives the compound an ideographic flavour: speak-and-act to make another, separate choice. Joins 叫, 句, 召 in the speech-and-call family.

Bottom 力 is the strength radical, a pictograph of a flexed arm or a plow. Combined with the mouth above, the whole character is a compound ideograph: speech plus force, used to set something apart from the rest. Hence 另 'another, separate, additional' (另外, 另一个). 力 is semantic, not phonetic - lì does not match lìng.