diff --git a/packages/babel-parser/src/tokenizer/index.js b/packages/babel-parser/src/tokenizer/index.js
index 871c319960..20dd2860c4 100644
--- a/packages/babel-parser/src/tokenizer/index.js
+++ b/packages/babel-parser/src/tokenizer/index.js
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ export default class Tokenizer extends LocationParser {
     } else {
       this.raise(
         this.state.pos,
-        `Unexpected character '${codePointToString(code)}'`,
+        `Unexpected character '${String.fromCodePoint(code)}'`,
       );
     }
   }