diff --git a/lisp/org-freemind.el b/lisp/org-freemind.el
index 0d697e1a3..f3663d07f 100644
--- a/lisp/org-freemind.el
+++ b/lisp/org-freemind.el
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ The characters \"&<> will be escaped."
                       ;; file is utf-8:
                       ;;
                       ;; (format "&#x%x;" (- cc ;; ?\x800))
-		      (format "&#x%x" (encode-char cc 'ucs))
+		      (format "&#x%x;" (encode-char cc 'ucs))
                       ))))
     fm-str))