List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic)
- glamorous, charming, fascinatingly elegant, lovely, gorgeous, beguiling, bewitching
な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- frosted (glass), matted
- disillusionment, letdown
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- roundabout (e.g. expression), indirect (reference, criticism, etc.), oblique
な adjective adjective (generic)
- remote
な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- far infrared
な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- upright, vertical, perpendicular
な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- secret
な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- oblong, landscape orientation
search-only kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- wickedness, sideways, unreasonable
noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- yellow