単行本|たんこうぼんtankoubon[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounstandalone book (i.e. not part of an anthology, series, etc.); (book published as a) single volume
2. nountankōbon; individual volume of a manga series

• Related著書ちょしょWrittenWritten/formal prose. Books a person has written; 「単行本」 stresses a book issued as its own volume, as opposed to magazine serialization or a publisher's uniform series.
• Related著作物ちょさくぶつFormalFormal, legal term for creative works expressed in text, music, images, etc.; far broader than books. 「単行本」 refers only to a book published as a single volume.
• Antonym叢書そうしょWrittenWritten/formal prose. A series of books published successively in a uniform format; opposite to 「単行本」 as series versus single volume.

Use 「単行本」 for a book published as a single volume or a collected volume of a serialized manga, as in 「単行本化」「単行本第1巻」. For books someone has written use 「著書」; for creative works in the legal sense 「著作物」; the opposite is 「叢書」, a series.

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1. 単独たんどくに出版しゅっぱん、刊行かんこうされた本ほん。