Meaning
余談 (よだん, yodan) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “digression”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
余談ですが父も同じ会社に勤めていました
By the way, my father worked at the same company.
それは余談です.
That's incidental to my story.
彼は余談に家族の話をした.
He spoke in an aside of his family.
余談だが、とぼけてよく舌を出して笑う。
By the way, it often acts stupid and smiles with its tongue stuck out.
余談だが、日本史の人物の中でとびぬけて名前が長い。
Incidentally, his name is exceptionally long among the people in the history of Japan.
余談だが、この念発火能力のことをパイロキネシスというらしい。
By the by, this ability to will fire into existence is apparently called pyrokinesis.
余談であるが、この列車は上り下りとも高槻市駅にてスタフの交換が行われていた。
Incidentally, the inbound train as well as the outbound train of this type made crew changes at Takatsukishi Station.
余談だが、彼が初代逓信大臣を勤めたとき、逓信省の「徽章」を決めることになった。
Incidentally, when he was the first Minister of Communication, they needed to decide on 'a badge' for the Ministry of Communication.
余談だがその年には熊手商の多くは縁起熊手に「火の用心」のシールを貼って売りだす。
Incidentally, in that year most kumade merchants sold auspicious kumade with 'Beware of fire' stickers attached.
余談であるが、現在のKTRのホームはかつての北丹鉄道の福知山駅があった位置にあたる。
Incidentally, the present KTR platform is located where the old Hokutan Railway's Fukuchiyama Station used to be located.