List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
irregular kanji usage な adjective adjective (generic)
- word-for-word, verbatim
irregular reading colloquial abbreviation な adjective adjective (generic)
- with profound (often hidden) meaning, pregnant with significance, meaningful, suggestive, interesting
colloquial noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- incompetence, laziness, worthlessness, weakness
- good-for-nothing, loser, weakling, wuss
search-only kanji form polite language noun noun (generic) colloquial slang な adjective adjective (generic)
- water, (drinking) water, (glass of) water
- night entertainment business, nightlife worker, hostess
- racy, titillating, sexy, suggestive
な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun (prefix) colloquial computing noun taking the genitive case particle の abbreviation printing photography
- all over, filled in, solid, gapless
- complete, total
- clichéd, hackneyed, corny, predictable
- plaintext
- solid printing, solid typesetting
- contact print
onomatopoeic or mimetic word な adjective adjective (generic) adverb taking the と particle adverb noun or participle taking the aux. verb する noun (generic)
- crisp (e.g. potato chip, fried fish, etc.), crunchy
- grumpily, touchily, edgily, irritably
- scratching
な adjective adjective (generic)
- fantastic, magical, wondrous, whimsical, fairytale-like, romantic
archaic な adjective adjective (generic)
- arching backward, looking up
usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- a long time (since the last time)
noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- strongish, somewhat strong