析

Ideogrammatic compound (meeting of elements):

木 (tree, wood) – semantic, indicating wood.

斤 (axe, halberd) – semantic, representing the tool of splitting.

Together, the image depicts splitting wood with an axe, originally a concrete act. By extension, it came to mean to divide, separate, or analyze, leading to abstract senses like analysis (分析).

분석 (分析) – analysis

해석 (解釋) – interpretation, explanation

분해·분석하다 (分解/分析) – to break down, analyze

이분법적 분석 (二分法的分析) – dichotomous analysis

In compounds like 分析, the sense of “splitting apart” is applied to ideas, problems, or texts, not just physical objects.