抄 means “excerpt, extract”

しょう · shou

Also: selection, summary, copy

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ショウ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 7 strokes

The story

A hand (扌) taking a few (少): picture picking out just a few lines from a long book. 抄 is an excerpt: a 抄本 copies part of a document, like the 戸籍抄本 with one person's entry from the family register, and 抄録 is an abstract.

Used in 抄本 (shouhon, extract/abridged copy), 抄録 (shouroku, abstract/excerpt), and 抄訳 (shouyaku, abridged translation)

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