diff --git a/man7/unicode.7 b/man7/unicode.7
index a0600bf0b..a4559ff0b 100644
--- a/man7/unicode.7
+++ b/man7/unicode.7
@@ -192,8 +192,7 @@ tells, how many positions (0\(en2) the cursor is advanced by the
 output of a character.
 .PP
 .SS Private area
-In the
-.BR BMP ,
+In the Basic Multilingual Plane,
 the range 0xe000 to 0xf8ff will never be assigned to any characters by
 the standard and is reserved for private usage.
 For the Linux