Jen is the most important Confucian virtue. While it essentially means "humanness," it is perhaps better understood as the respect for and love of humanity. Another way to understand it as a person's dignity, which is a combination of self-respect and repect and sympathy towards others.
(Chinese, Confucianism) Confucius's concept of an ideal humanity, benevolence and perfect virtue.
the Chinese term for "goodness" or "human-heartedness." The first of the Confucian Five Aspects of Deliberate Tradition.