List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- erudition, extensive learning
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- vast, huge, immense, enormous, colossal
- malva nut (Scaphium affine)
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- pessimistic, gloomy
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) archaic
- undutifulness to one's parents, lack of filial piety
- (the crime of) cursing one's parents
- disowning one's child
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- method, manner, way, style
- appearance, air
- tendency
- folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
- wind (one of the five elements)
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun (suffix) noun (generic)
- flat, level, even, smooth
- calm, tranquil, placid, composed, stable
- relaxed (sitting posture), comfortable
- plateau, tableland, plain
popular obsolete reading JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun (suffix)
- distinction, difference, discrimination
- separate, different, another, extra
- exception, exclusion
- classified by, ranked by, according to
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone adverb な adjective adjective (generic)
- still, as yet, only
- (not) yet
- more, (more) still
- at least, comparatively, relatively
- unfinished, incomplete, not yet done
popular ateji JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone yojijukugo な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) colloquial adverb
- nonsensical, unreasonable, absurd, unrealistic
- awfully, extremely, to excess, senseless, reckless
- disorder, confusion, being jumbled, being mixed up
- very, extremely, excessively
popular search-only kana form ateji JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) adverb
- absurd, unreasonable, nonsensical, preposterous, incoherent
- extreme, senseless, reckless, wanton
- disorderly, chaotic, confused, messy
- incredibly, really, so, super