diff --git a/Doc/c-api/init.rst b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
index d4954958f855f5..d573ef13128024 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/init.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/init.rst
@@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ code, or when embedding the Python interpreter:
 .. c:type:: PyThreadState
 
    This data structure represents the state of a single thread.  The only public
-   data member is :attr:`interp` (:c:type:`PyInterpreterState *`), which points to
+   data member is :attr:`interp` (:c:expr:`PyInterpreterState *`), which points to
    this thread's interpreter state.