How to Write 痦 (wù) — Meaning “mole”

Think of a mole as "my (吾) little illness (疒)" — a harmless spot on your skin that you call "my mole." The shape of 吾 inside the sick radical can remind you of a small bump on the body.

First write the radical 疒 with its standard strokes: dot, horizontal, left-falling, vertical, and a short dot. Then add 吾, which has five horizontal strokes — keep them evenly spaced and parallel. A common mistake is making the radical too narrow or forgetting the third horizontal stroke in 吾.

痦 (wù) means a mole, a solid skin growth. 疱 (pào) means a blister filled with fluid, and has a different phonetic part 包. 疰 (zhù) refers to a chronic illness (like summer heat stroke) and is not related to skin marks. Visually, 疱 has 包 inside while 痦 has 吾.

痦 is a colloquial term for a mole on the skin, commonly used in everyday speech like 长痦子 (to grow a mole). It is not a medical term; doctors use 痣 (zhì) instead. In Chinese culture, moles are often interpreted in face reading as signs of luck or personality, but 痦 itself carries no special cultural meaning beyond describing a physical spot.

Common words containing 痦 include: 痦子 (wù zi) — mole; nevus; 黑痦子 (hēi wù zi) — Black mole (colloquial); 长痦子 (zhǎng wù zi) — To grow a mole.