List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- happiness, well-being, joy, welfare, blessedness
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- highly priced, expensive, valuable, costly
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- pitch-dark, pitch-black, completely dark
- very bleak (future), utterly hopeless
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- sexual (i.e. relating to biological sex)
- sexual (relations, attraction, abuse, etc.)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- simple, artless, naive, unsophisticated
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unique, peculiar, singular
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- rich (flavor, color, etc.), strong (e.g. odor), heavy, thick (soup, makeup, etc.), dense
- probable, (very) likely, strong (suspicion, sense, etc.), pronounced
- passionate, sensuous, hot
popular obsolete reading noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- outstanding, excellent, exceptional, distinguished, unrivaled, surpassing (e.g. beauty), beyond compare
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unnatural, artificial, affected, strained
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- superiority, superior power, predominance, preponderance