diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5b14907af..a4e46ba99 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2208,9 +2208,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-segmentation"
-version = "1.8.0"
+version = "1.9.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8895849a949e7845e06bd6dc1aa51731a103c42707010a5b591c0038fb73385b"
+checksum = "7e8820f5d777f6224dc4be3632222971ac30164d4a258d595640799554ebfd99"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-width"
diff --git a/src/uu/more/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/more/Cargo.toml
index d8e48cbd7..6975a3ecc 100644
--- a/src/uu/more/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/more/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ uucore = { version = ">=0.0.7", package = "uucore", path = "../../uucore" }
 crossterm = ">=0.19"
 atty = "0.2"
 unicode-width = "0.1.7"
-unicode-segmentation = "1.7.1"
+unicode-segmentation = "1.9.0"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "redox")'.dependencies]
 redox_termios = "0.1"