diff --git a/icu4c/source/tools/makeconv/gb18030/gb18030.html b/icu4c/source/tools/makeconv/gb18030/gb18030.html
index 80a413d2b7..5ff1f312e1 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/tools/makeconv/gb18030/gb18030.html
+++ b/icu4c/source/tools/makeconv/gb18030/gb18030.html
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ the text of the standard is expected to be republished in December.
Byte sequence structure:
- - Single-byte: 00-80
+ - Single-byte: 00-7f
- Two-byte: 81-fe | 40-7e, 80-fe
- Four-byte: 81-fe | 30-39 | 81-fe | 30-39
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Compared with the above, it
corrects the mappings for U+2e97 and U+303e
removes any mappings for single surrogates
removes all fallback mappings, specifying only roundtrip mappings between GB 18030 and Unicode 3.0
- changes the mapping for the Euro sign and removes the fullwidth Euro sign
+ changes the mapping for the Euro sign and removes the fullwidth Euro sign (GB+80 is not used any more)
re-enumerates all four-byte GB sequences for Unicode BMP code points from U+0080
This results in a new codepage definition that removes backwards compatibility with GBK for some 80 characters