List: adjective (keiyoushi)
Adjectives finishing in い before they modify a noun.
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 い adjective adjective (generic)
- smoky
- awkward, uncomfortable, ill at ease
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- lukewarm, tepid
- lenient
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- trivial, trifling, insignificant, not worth bothering with, worthless, useless, good-for-nothing
- stupid, nonsensical, absurd, foolish, silly
popular JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic)
- lovely, sweet, pretty, cute, adorable
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone expression い adjective adjective (generic)
- intolerable, unbearable, unendurable
- irresistible, tremendous, out of this world
- cannot help (doing), cannot but do, anxious to do, cannot get enough of
popular ateji search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- noisy, loud, clamorous, boisterous
- much talked of, much-discussed, vexed
- strict, severe, stern
- particular, fussy, fastidious, fault-finding, carping
popular JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic)
- happy, glad, pleased, delighted, overjoyed
- joyful, delightful, gratifying, pleasant
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone honorific language い adjective adjective (generic)
- good, OK, all right, fine, very well, will do, may, can
popular JLPT N2 い adjective adjective (generic)
- impudent, shameless, brazen, cheeky, presumptuous
popular search-only kana form JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic) suffix
- stinking, smelly
- suspicious, fishy
- clumsy, unskilled
- smelling of
- looking like, appearing like, smacking of, -ish