List: adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
Adjectival nouns (keiyō-dōshi) or adjectives finishing in な before they modify a noun.
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- unskillful, poor, awkward
- imprudent, untactful
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- stubborn, obstinate, pigheaded
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- ingenious, skillful, clever, deft
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) adverb
- happiness, blessedness, luck, fortune, felicity
- luckily, fortunately
popular な adjective adjective (generic) archaic
- detailed, scrupulous, careful, minute, faithful, elaborate
- diligent, honest, upright, sincere
popular irregular kanji usage JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する な adjective adjective (generic)
- management, dealing with, settlement, cleaning up, disposal
- course of events, circumstances, particulars
- end result (usu. bad), outcome
- economizing, economising, frugality, being thrifty
popular obsolete reading irregular okurigana obsolete kanji JLPT N2 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic)
- slanting, tilted, sloping, diagonal, oblique
- distorted (feeling), slanted (e.g. view of the world), bad (mood), amiss, awry
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun (prefix)
- one's own convenience, one's way, selfishness
- surroundings, environment, way of doing things
- convenience, ease of use
- financial circumstances, living, livelihood
- kitchen
- right hand (in archery), hand that pulls the bowstring
- unauthorised (e.g. phone app, WWW site), unofficial
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- kind, gentle, considerate, generous, friendly, nice
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- intimacy, friendship