書籍 (しょせき, shoseki) Japanese meaning: book

書籍 (しょせき, shoseki) Japanese meaning: book | Kotomora

Kanji

本ほんN5
本 is the everyday word for a book, while 書籍 is a more formal term often used in official, commercial, or institutional contexts.
図と書しょN3
図書 is a formal term used especially in library and cataloguing contexts, while 書籍 is used more broadly for books as publications.
出しゅっ版ぱん物ぶつ
出版物 covers all published works including magazines and pamphlets, whereas 書籍 refers specifically to books.
読よみ物もの
書籍 is a formal word for published books, while 読み物 refers more broadly to anything meant to be read, including articles and stories, and carries a lighter, more casual tone.

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ムック
書籍 refers to books in general without the magazine-style visuals or catalog format that define a ムック.
書しょ物もつN3
書籍 is a formal term used mainly in commercial, library, or bureaucratic contexts to refer to books collectively, whereas 書物 tends to refer to individual volumes or works of substance.
ブック
書籍 is a formal, written term for books as publications used in official or library contexts, whereas ブック is a casual loanword rarely used alone.
著ちょ書しょN1
書籍 is a neutral term for books as published items in general, while 著書 highlights the book as a specific person's own written work.

冊さつN1
For bound volumes — books, magazines, notebooks.
部ぶN2
Use 部 when counting 書籍 as published copies (as opposed to 冊, used when counting them as physical books).

書籍Usage100%
- しょせき
  Standard kanji spelling; the reading しょじゃく is obsolete.
- しょじゃく
  out-dated reading
しょじゃく

Sino-Japanese compound of 書 (writing, document) and 籍 (register, record).