余事

Japanese

Kanji in this term
余	事
よ Grade: 5	じ Grade: 3
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
餘事 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) よじ [yóꜜjì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]^[2]^[3]
IPA^(key): [jo̞ʑi]

Noun

余(よ)事(じ) • (yoji)

leisure activity; something done not for work
something else; something irrelevant, beside the point
- 1914, 夏目漱石 [Natsume Sōseki], chapter 34, in こゝろ [Kokoro], 下先生と遺書 [Sensei's Testament]:
  これは余事(よじ)ですが、こういう嫉妬(しっと)は愛(あい)の半面(はんめん)じゃないでしょうか。
  Kore wa yoji desu ga, kō iu shitto wa ai no hanmen janai deshō ka.
  This is a digression, but isn't such jealousy an aspect of love?

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (2016), NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2020), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Eighth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN