A selected passage or portion taken from a larger text.
I became interested after reading an excerpt from this book.
shō (unit of volume); banknote (archaic)
Sense 3: a traditional unit of volume, approximately 1.8 ml. Sense 4: archaic term for paper money, written as 鈔.
I checked the meaning by referring to the annotations on the classic text.
Shō was used as an old unit of volume.
The character 鈔 used to mean paper money.
excerpt; abridgment; book of selections
excerption; manual copying; excerpt
excerpting; extraction; taking excerpts
Standard kanji for excerpt/extract and annotation senses.
Archaic kanji for banknote; also used in historical contexts for excerpt/annotation.
The kanji 抄 originally relates to extracting or selecting, while 鈔 is a variant used historically for money and documents. The reading しょう is the on'yomi.