diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tools/test_makeunicodedata.py b/Lib/test/test_tools/test_makeunicodedata.py
index eee68676416c45..f31375117e2e92 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tools/test_makeunicodedata.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tools/test_makeunicodedata.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import unittest
-from test.test_tools import toolsdir, imports_under_tool
+from test.test_tools import skip_if_missing, imports_under_tool
 from test import support
 from test.support.hypothesis_helper import hypothesis
 
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 example = hypothesis.example
 
 
+skip_if_missing("unicode")
 with imports_under_tool("unicode"):
     from dawg import Dawg, build_compression_dawg, lookup, inverse_lookup