diff --git a/uast/uast-common/src/com/intellij/patterns/uast/UastPatterns.kt b/uast/uast-common/src/com/intellij/patterns/uast/UastPatterns.kt
index f7a280a363e6c..ee6436d038c7c 100644
--- a/uast/uast-common/src/com/intellij/patterns/uast/UastPatterns.kt
+++ b/uast/uast-common/src/com/intellij/patterns/uast/UastPatterns.kt
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ import org.jetbrains.uast.*
 
 fun literalExpression(): ULiteralExpressionPattern = ULiteralExpressionPattern()
 
+@Deprecated("Interpolated strings (in Kotlin) are not single string literals, use `injectionHostUExpression()` to be language-abstract",
+            ReplaceWith("injectionHostUExpression()", "com.intellij.patterns.uast.injectionHostUExpression"))
 fun stringLiteralExpression(): ULiteralExpressionPattern = literalExpression().filter(ULiteralExpression::isStringLiteral)
 
 @JvmOverloads