析
Symbols Mind
analysis
ㄒㄧ xī
Two versions of the same picture, and both are free with no account and no watermark. The first has no background at all, which is the one to send your artist — but a phone or computer photo viewer set to dark will show black strokes on dark grey and it can look like nothing downloaded. If that happens, use the second one: identical characters on a plain white background. Either way you get the characters on their own — the square and the faint guide lines you see above are not in the file. Each character is 1000px, so a two-character download is 2000×1000, and the script and layout are the ones you picked.
Script
Characters
Same in both
Layout
Rubbing mode: white on black, as a stone rubbing. The download is unaffected.
Taking something apart to see how it works. The Chinese character comes from splitting wood.
Before you commit
Choose with care析 does not stand alone in speech. A reader recognises it at once but expects 分析 or 解析 around it.
Pairs well with分析 for analysis, 解析 for an analytical explanation, 剖析 for a searching breakdown.
At small sizesEight strokes in two light halves with a lot of white between them. Very safe small, though the gap can read as loose.
Meaning
To split apart; to analyse.
Wood beside an axe - dividing a thing into its parts, and still the analysis character today.
Other characters for “analysis”
What to do next
Pick the script and layout you want above, download the PNG, and send that file to your artist. Ask them to work from the file rather than redrawing the character freehand — that is where strokes go missing.
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