diff --git a/icu4c/source/common/ucnvmbcs.cpp b/icu4c/source/common/ucnvmbcs.cpp
index dda7435ed816..e8358a87057b 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/common/ucnvmbcs.cpp
+++ b/icu4c/source/common/ucnvmbcs.cpp
@@ -3145,7 +3145,7 @@ ucnv_MBCSGetNextUChar(UConverterToUnicodeArgs *pArgs,
 
     if(c<0) {
         if(U_SUCCESS(*pErrorCode) && source==sourceLimit && lastSource<source &&
-           (size_t)(source-lastSource) <= sizeof(cnv->toUBytes)) {
+               (size_t)(source-lastSource) <= sizeof(cnv->toUBytes)) {
             /* incomplete character byte sequence */
             uint8_t *bytes=cnv->toUBytes;
             cnv->toULength = static_cast<int8_t>(source - lastSource);