List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular obsolete kanji search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- extramarital sex, affair, fooling around
- infidelity, wantonness, unfaithfulness, inconstancy, fickleness, caprice
popular rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- easy, simple, ready
- casual, off-hand, easy-going, careless, artless
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic)
- rare, seldom
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- discord, (on) bad terms (with)
popular rarely used kanji form noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- unhurt, uninjured, unwounded, unscathed, unharmed
- flawless (e.g. gem), unblemished, undamaged, perfect (condition)
- spotless (e.g. reputation), faultless (e.g. performance), perfect (record), without failure, without defeat
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- disorder, chaos, confusion
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unreasonable, irrational, outrageous, absurd
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- ethical
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- out of the question, outrageous, impossible
- irrelevant, not pertinent
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- spirited, energetic