List: adjective (keiyoushi)
Adjectives finishing in い before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N4 い adjective adjective (generic)
- scary, frightening, eerie, dreadful
popular obsolete reading JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- round, circular, spherical
- curved, smooth
- harmonious, calm, peaceful, amiable, amicable
popular rarely used kanji form い adjective adjective (generic)
- joyful (news, event, etc.), joyous, delightful (e.g. result), pleasing (e.g. sight), gratifying, welcome, good, happy, glad, pleased
popular irregular kanji usage JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic)
- terrible, dreadful, terrifying, frightening
- surprising, startling, tremendous, amazing
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- near, close, short (distance)
- close (in time), soon
- close (relationship), friendly, intimate
- closely related
- similar, almost the same, close to, nearly
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- fat, thick
- deep (of a voice), thick, sonorous
- daring, shameless, brazen, audacious
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- thin (of an object)
- pale, light, faint
- watery, thin, diluted
- weak (taste, etc.), little (affection, etc.), not much (of a presence)
- slim (probability, etc.), small
- sparse, patchy, scattered
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N4 い adjective adjective (generic)
- soft, tender, supple, flexible, limber, limp
- gentle, mild, soft, mellow
- light (topic, book, etc.), informal
- flexible (thinking, mind, etc.), malleable, adaptable
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- vivid (memory, description, etc.), fresh, graphic, raw, true-to-life, first-hand (experience)
- fresh (blood, scar, etc.), still new, recent, just occurred
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- doubtful, questionable, uncertain, disputable, suspicious