diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactRawTextShadowNode.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactRawTextShadowNode.java
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index e43e43b5ef40..000000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactRawTextShadowNode.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- */
-
-package com.facebook.react.views.text;
-
-import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
-import com.facebook.infer.annotation.Nullsafe;
-import com.facebook.react.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
-import com.facebook.react.uimanager.ReactShadowNode;
-import com.facebook.react.uimanager.ReactShadowNodeImpl;
-import com.facebook.react.uimanager.annotations.ReactProp;
-
-/**
- * {@link ReactShadowNode} class for pure raw text node (aka {@code textContent} in terms of DOM).
- * Raw text node can only have simple string value without any attributes, properties or state.
- */
-@Nullsafe(Nullsafe.Mode.LOCAL)
-public class ReactRawTextShadowNode extends ReactShadowNodeImpl {
-
-  @VisibleForTesting public static final String PROP_TEXT = "text";
-
-  private @Nullable String mText = null;
-
-  public ReactRawTextShadowNode() {}
-
-  @ReactProp(name = PROP_TEXT)
-  public void setText(@Nullable String text) {
-    mText = text;
-    markUpdated();
-  }
-
-  public @Nullable String getText() {
-    return mText;
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public boolean isVirtual() {
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  public String toString() {
-    return getViewClass() + " [text: " + mText + "]";
-  }
-}
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactRawTextShadowNode.kt b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactRawTextShadowNode.kt
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index 000000000000..97e69da8a05a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactRawTextShadowNode.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+package com.facebook.react.views.text
+
+import com.facebook.react.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.ReactShadowNodeImpl
+import com.facebook.react.uimanager.annotations.ReactProp
+
+/**
+ * [ReactShadowNode] class for pure raw text node (aka `textContent` in terms of DOM).
+ * Raw text node can only have simple string value without any attributes, properties or state.
+ */
+public class ReactRawTextShadowNode : ReactShadowNodeImpl() {
+  @set:ReactProp(name = PROP_TEXT)
+  public var text: String? = null
+    set(value) {
+      field = value
+      markUpdated()
+    }
+
+  override fun isVirtual(): Boolean = true
+
+  override fun toString(): String = "$viewClass [text: $text]"
+
+  public companion object {
+    @VisibleForTesting
+    public const val PROP_TEXT: String = "text"
+  }
+}