KEY CHARACTERS IN THE ANALECTS
by 8 translators.  

REN	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	benevolence, perfect virtue (from his character index) Goodness humanity benevolence humanity, goodness humanity ren authoritative conduct, authoritative person ("'Authoritative' entails the 'authority' that a person comes to represent in community by becoming ren - 'authoring' the culture for one's own place and time.")
LI	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	the fitness or propriety of things, rules of propriety, ceremonies ritual, rites the rules of ceremony, propriety rites ritual, rites, courtesy rituals. ritual, propriety, courtesy, ceremonies, to display decorum observing ritual propriety:
DAO	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	(1) a road, a path: very often with a moral application, the course or courses, the ways proper to; sometimes it is: the right way, what is right and true (2) doctrine, principles, teachings Way Way, moral principles Way Way, principles Way Way, principles way
DE	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	virtue, virtuous; energy, influence moral power , true virtue,  inner qualities virtue, character virtue, moral virtue virtue, inner force virtue, moral force, moral character virtue, character excellence
YI	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	what is right, righteousness what is right what is right, righteousness what is right, being moral, just what is right, what is just, fair righteousness, reasonable what is right, appropriate appropriateness
ZHONG	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	(1) self-devotion, generous sincerity (2) faithful, loyal loyalty, to be faithful to your superiors, devotion loyalty, conscientiousness, sincere doing one's best for others, conscientious loyal, trustworthy wholehearted sincerity loyalty doing one's utmost
SHU	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	the principle of reciprocity, making our own feelings the rule for our dealing with others consideration for the feelings of others altruism using oneself as a measure to gauge others reciprocity likehearted considerateness empathy putting oneself in the other's place
XIN	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	(1) sincere, sincerity; to believe, to be believed in; (2) an agreement; (3) truly, true true to one's word, good faith, faithful, to keep promises, to have confidence in faithfulness, confidence to be trustworthy in what you say, truthful truthful, a promise truthfulness true, faithful making good on one's word
MING	Legge Waley Chan Lau Leys Huang Brooks Ames & Rosemont	(1) to order, direct; what is appointed, spoken of what Heaven appoints: the throne, our nature, and generally; (2) spoken of a sovereign's ordering, a commission fate, the will of Heaven, the decree of Heaven, the span of life allotted by Heaven destiny, the decree of Heaven Destiny fate, Heaven's will Fate, the decree of Heaven. fate, the appointed limits the propensity of circumstances