diff --git a/Include/unicodeobject.h b/Include/unicodeobject.h
index afef5d0..b6a7fca 100644
--- a/Include/unicodeobject.h
+++ b/Include/unicodeobject.h
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@
 # define _PyUnicode_AsDefaultEncodedString _PyUnicodeUCS2_AsDefaultEncodedString
 # define _PyUnicode_Fini _PyUnicodeUCS2_Fini
 # define _PyUnicode_Init _PyUnicodeUCS2_Init
+# define PyUnicode_strdup PyUnicodeUCS2_strdup
 
 #else
 
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@
 # define _PyUnicode_AsDefaultEncodedString _PyUnicodeUCS4_AsDefaultEncodedString
 # define _PyUnicode_Fini _PyUnicodeUCS4_Fini
 # define _PyUnicode_Init _PyUnicodeUCS4_Init
-
+# define PyUnicode_strdup PyUnicodeUCS4_strdup
 
 #endif
 
@@ -1602,6 +1603,14 @@
     Py_UNICODE c
     );
 
+/* Create a copy of a unicode string ending with a nul character. Return NULL
+   and raise a MemoryError exception on memory allocation failure, otherwise
+   return a new allocated buffer (use PyMem_Free() to free the buffer). */
+
+PyAPI_FUNC(Py_UNICODE*) PyUnicode_strdup(
+    PyObject *unicode
+    );
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index 95823ad..80e2e63 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -10014,6 +10014,28 @@
     return NULL;
 }
 
+Py_UNICODE*
+PyUnicode_strdup(PyObject *object)
+{
+    PyUnicodeObject *unicode = (PyUnicodeObject *)object;
+    Py_UNICODE *copy;
+    Py_ssize_t size;
+
+    /* Ensure we won't overflow the size. */
+    if (PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(unicode) > ((PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / sizeof(Py_UNICODE)) - 1)) {
+        PyErr_NoMemory();
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    size = PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(unicode) + 1; /* copy the nul character */
+    size *= sizeof(Py_UNICODE);
+    copy = PyMem_Malloc(size);
+    if (copy == NULL) {
+        PyErr_NoMemory();
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    memcpy(copy, PyUnicode_AS_UNICODE(unicode), size);
+    return copy;
+}
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }