List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- (member of the) yakuza, gangster, mobster
- hoodlum, racketeer, gambler
- useless, worthless, good-for-nothing, trashy
popular search-only kana form な adjective adjective (generic)
- creative
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- graphics, graphic
- graphic magazine, pictorial magazine
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- sporty (esp. garments, accessories, etc.)
popular colloquial noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- fat, chubby
- fatso, fatty, fat person
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb adverb taking the と particle noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.), pattering
- flipping (through a book, etc.), riffling
- sparse, scattered, sporadic
- crumbly (e.g. tofu, cheese), loose, non-sticky (e.g. rice)
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- friendly
popular JLPT N2 onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb taking the と particle adverb noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun or participle taking the aux. verb する noun (generic)
- lightly (floating, drifting, etc.), buoyantly
- soft, fluffy, spongy
- unsteadily, flightily, fickly, frivolously
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word noun or participle taking the aux. verb する verb (generic) noun (generic) adverb adverb taking the と particle な adjective adjective (generic) archaic
- to be careless, to be inattentive, to be absentminded, to be slow
- long and disheveled (e.g. hair) (dishevelled)
- flaring up (fire), rising (e.g. steam)
popular rarely used kana form search-only kana form derogatory abbreviation noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- faddist, follow-the-crowd type, poser, trend junkie, sheep