Junzi originally meant the son of a lord. Confucius made it a moral ideal: the person of cultivated virtue, humane, righteous and courteous, who seeks what is right rather than what is profitable. The Analects contrasts the junzi with the petty person throughout.
Junzi
The exemplary person: the Confucian ideal of the noble, cultivated and virtuous human being.
Also: chun-tzu, gentleman