diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/CanonicalIterator.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/CanonicalIterator.java
index 27326c2b781..f89a81d12d4 100755
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/CanonicalIterator.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/CanonicalIterator.java
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ public final class CanonicalIterator {
      * @param skipZeros set to true to skip characters with canonical combining class zero
      * @param output the set to add the results to
      * @internal
+     * @deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
      */
     public static void permute(String source, boolean skipZeros, Set output) {
         // TODO: optimize
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/UnicodeSet.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/UnicodeSet.java
index bad7cae9956..4a6221d8396 100755
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/UnicodeSet.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/UnicodeSet.java
@@ -921,6 +921,7 @@ public class UnicodeSet extends UnicodeFilter implements Freezable {
     /**
      * Tests whether the text matches at the offset. If so, returns the end of the longest substring that it matches. If not, returns -1. 
      * @internal
+     * @deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
      */
     public int matchesAt(CharSequence text, int offset) {
         int lastLen = -1;
@@ -1858,6 +1859,7 @@ public class UnicodeSet extends UnicodeFilter implements Freezable {
      * Get the Regex equivalent for this UnicodeSet
      * @return regex pattern equivalent to this UnicodeSet
      * @internal
+     * @deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
      */
     public String getRegexEquivalent() {
         if (strings.size() == 0) return toString();