List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular search-only kanji form expression noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する な adjective adjective (generic)
- disliking a certain food without having tried it
- disliking something without having tried it, being prejudiced against, having an instinctive aversion to
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- without accident
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- devoted, self-sacrificing
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- literary
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- intelligence, cleverness, innate aptitude
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- progressive
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- absorbed in, immersed in, crazy about, obsessed with, devoted to
- forgetting oneself, daze, trance, ecstasy, delirium
- within a dream, while dreaming
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective Buddhism noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- innocence
- mind free of obstructive thoughts, detachment, no-mind
- insentient
- pestering (someone for money, etc.), asking, begging, request
popular obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) interjection
- pity, sorrow, grief, misery, compassion, pathos
- pitiable, pitiful, pathetic, miserable
- alack, alas
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- bizarre, strange, weird, mysterious
- grotesque