diff --git a/test/built-ins/RegExp/property-escapes/character-class.js b/test/built-ins/RegExp/property-escapes/character-class.js
index bb09e9c818..ebe402e979 100644
--- a/test/built-ins/RegExp/property-escapes/character-class.js
+++ b/test/built-ins/RegExp/property-escapes/character-class.js
@@ -10,12 +10,7 @@ features: [regexp-unicode-property-escapes]
 ---*/
 
 /[\p{Hex}]/u;
-assert.throws(
-  SyntaxError,
-  () => /[\p{Hex}-\uFFFF]/u,
-  // See step 1 of https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#sec-runtime-semantics-characterrange-abstract-operation.
-  'property escape at start of character class range should throw if it expands to multiple characters'
-);
+assert.throws.early(SyntaxError, "/[\\p{Hex}-\\uFFFF]/u");
 assert.throws.early(SyntaxError, "/[\\p{}]/u");
 assert.throws.early(SyntaxError, "/[\\p{invalid}]/u");
 assert.throws.early(SyntaxError, "/[\\p{]/u");