diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/translit/src/com/ibm/icu/text/SourceTargetUtility.java b/icu4j/main/classes/translit/src/com/ibm/icu/text/SourceTargetUtility.java
index 57890353c1..ac5f0ea021 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/translit/src/com/ibm/icu/text/SourceTargetUtility.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/translit/src/com/ibm/icu/text/SourceTargetUtility.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class SourceTargetUtility {
     final UnicodeSet sourceCache;
     final Set<String> sourceStrings;
     static final UnicodeSet NON_STARTERS = new UnicodeSet("[:^ccc=0:]").freeze();
-    static Normalizer2 NFC = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "NFC", Mode.COMPOSE);
+    static Normalizer2 NFC = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "nfc", Mode.COMPOSE);
     //static final UnicodeSet TRAILING_COMBINING = new UnicodeSet();
 
     public SourceTargetUtility(Transform<String, String> transform) {
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class SourceTargetUtility {
         if (normalizer != null) {
 //            synchronized (SourceTargetUtility.class) {
 //                if (NFC == null) {
-//                    NFC = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "NFC", Mode.COMPOSE);
+//                    NFC = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "nfc", Mode.COMPOSE);
 //                    for (int i = 0; i <= 0x10FFFF; ++i) {
 //                        String d = NFC.getDecomposition(i);
 //                        if (d == null) {
diff --git a/icu4j/main/tests/translit/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/translit/TransliteratorTest.java b/icu4j/main/tests/translit/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/translit/TransliteratorTest.java
index bc1b6247ad..b21126de78 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/tests/translit/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/translit/TransliteratorTest.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/tests/translit/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/translit/TransliteratorTest.java
@@ -3016,9 +3016,9 @@ public class TransliteratorTest extends TestFmwk {
     public void TestSourceTargetSet2() {
 
 
-        Normalizer2 nfkd = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "NFKC", Mode.DECOMPOSE);
-        Normalizer2 nfc = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "NFC", Mode.COMPOSE);
-        Normalizer2 nfd = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "NFC", Mode.DECOMPOSE);
+        Normalizer2 nfkd = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "nfkc", Mode.DECOMPOSE);
+        Normalizer2 nfc = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "nfc", Mode.COMPOSE);
+        Normalizer2 nfd = Normalizer2.getInstance(null, "nfc", Mode.DECOMPOSE);
         //        UnicodeSet nfkdSource = new UnicodeSet();
         //        UnicodeSet nfkdTarget = new UnicodeSet();
         //        for (int i = 0; i <= 0x10FFFF; ++i) {