List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic)
- bustling, busy, crowded, lively, prosperous, thriving
- lively (party, voices, etc.), loud, noisy, merry, cheerful
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- bent back, hunchback, stoop
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- active
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