Illustration: During a small pottery workshop in a Japanese community studio, an instructor pauses beside an unfinished bowl on the wheel. Instead of continuing the hand demonstration, they hold up a photograph of themselves struggling to lift an enormous fish and spread their free arm to illustrate its size.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

余よ談だん

yodan

digression, aside

Example sentences

  1. 余談よだんだが、日本史にっぽんしの人物じんぶつの中なかでとびぬけて名前なまえが長ながい。

    Incidentally, his name is exceptionally long among the people in the history of Japan.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 余談よだんであるが、現在げんざいのKTRのホームはかつての北丹鉄道ほくたんてつどうの福知山駅ふくちやまえきがあった位置いちにあたる。

    Incidentally, the present KTR platform is located where the old Hokutan Railway’s Fukuchiyama Station used to be located.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 余談よだんだが、唯一ゆいいつロータリーエンジンを製作せいさくしている広島ひろしまの自動車じどうしゃメーカのマツダでは、エンジン内ないの「ローター」を「おむすび型がた」と称しょうしている。

    As an aside, Mazda, the Hiroshima automaker that alone makes rotary engines, calls the rotor inside the engine “rice-ball-shaped.”

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 余談

  • 余surplus; remainderOnヨKunあまる・あまり・あます
  • 談discuss; talkOnダン

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