How to say "excerpt" in Japanese

• 抜粋ばっすいCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbAn excerpt in the basic sense: a passage selected and taken out of a book, article, or speech. Use it when quoting or reproducing part of a text.
  彼かれはその詩しから一節いっせつを抜粋ばっすいした。↗

  He extracted a passage from the poem.
• 抄本しょうほんCommon
  nounRefers to an excerpt in the form of a whole work: an abridgment or a book of selections. For a short quoted passage from a text, this is seldom the word you want.
• 別刷りべつずりCommon
  nounThe publishing sense of 'excerpt': an offprint, an article or section printed separately from the publication it appeared in. Not the word for a passage you quote from a text.

Use 抜粋 for a passage taken from a text, 抄本 for a whole abridged work or book of selections, and 「別刷り」 for a separately printed offprint of an article.

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• 抄本しょうほんexcerpt
• 別刷りべつずりexcerpt
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• 抜き書きぬきがきextract
• 書き抜きかきぬきextract
• 手抄しゅしょうexcerption