diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 292d02b..a3af7f6 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -2313,7 +2313,7 @@
     end = s + size;
 
     while (s < end) {
-        *p = *(Py_UNICODE *)s;
+        memcpy(p, s, sizeof(Py_UNICODE));
         /* We have to sanity check the raw data, otherwise doom looms for
            some malformed UCS-4 data. */
         if (