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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/json.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/json.sgml
index 87665dbe178..e00e11bff7b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/json.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/json.sgml
@@ -695,21 +695,20 @@ SELECT jdoc->'guid', jdoc->'name' FROM api WHERE jdoc @@ '$.tags[*] == "qui"';
In particular, the way to write a double quote within an embedded string
literal is <literal>\"</literal>, and to write a backslash itself, you
must write <literal>\\</literal>. Other special backslash sequences
- include those recognized in JSON strings:
+ include those recognized in JavaScript strings:
<literal>\b</literal>,
<literal>\f</literal>,
<literal>\n</literal>,
<literal>\r</literal>,
<literal>\t</literal>,
<literal>\v</literal>
- for various ASCII control characters, and
- <literal>\u<replaceable>NNNN</replaceable></literal> for a Unicode
- character identified by its 4-hex-digit code point. The backslash
- syntax also includes two cases not allowed by JSON:
+ for various ASCII control characters,
<literal>\x<replaceable>NN</replaceable></literal> for a character code
- written with only two hex digits, and
- <literal>\u{<replaceable>N...</replaceable>}</literal> for a character
- code written with 1 to 6 hex digits.
+ written with only two hex digits,
+ <literal>\u<replaceable>NNNN</replaceable></literal> for a Unicode
+ character identified by its 4-hex-digit code point, and
+ <literal>\u{<replaceable>N...</replaceable>}</literal> for a Unicode
+ character code point written with 1 to 6 hex digits.
</para>
<para>