Traditionally, this radical character is printed with two dots, while in written regular script, only the one-dot form is used.

This simplification was then inherited by the less mandatory jōyō kanji (常用漢字) policy.

The 2010 Revised Jōyō Kanji Table stipulates that despite the inconsistency in the printing forms, this radical character should always be written with one dot.

In mainland China, the replacement of the two-dot ⻍ with one-dot ⻌ (3 strokes in dictionaries) happens when the xin zixing (new typeface) was popularized.

The change also applies to traditional Chinese characters (e.g. 運) used in mainland China.