List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- secret, private, surreptitious
popular usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) dated term
- diligent, hardworking, conscientious
- healthy, well, fit
- faithful, honest, sincere
popular search-only kana form usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- piping hot, scalding
- madly in love, passionately in love
popular ateji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- poor, pitiable, pathetic, pitiful
popular rarely used kanji form な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- light (flavor, color, etc.), simple, plain
- frank, candid, easygoing, unselfish, indifferent (to), not particular (about)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- very, considerably, easily, readily, fairly, quite, highly, rather
- by no means, not readily
- middle, half-way point
- excellent, wonderful, very good
popular JLPT N2 adverb taking the と particle adverb noun or participle taking the aux. verb する verb (generic) noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- extensive, spacious
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- imbalance, disproportion, disparity, mismatch, asymmetry
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- welcome (news), inviting, encouraging, tempting, hopeful
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- psychological, mental