"Confucius" is the Latin rendering of his Chinese name, Kong Fu-Zi, which is sometimes also spelled as Kung Fu-Zi, K'ung-fu-tze, or in other variations. The name is unrelated to the martial art known as kung fu.
The Chinese writer and philosopher known as Confucius is actually called 孔子 or 孔夫子 in Chinese. These are pronounced Kongzi and Kongfuzi, respectively. However, when Westerners first came...