diff --git a/pandas/core/series.py b/pandas/core/series.py
index 6e6e8b6d8b178..9eab934d7db83 100644
--- a/pandas/core/series.py
+++ b/pandas/core/series.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ class Series(base.IndexOpsMixin, generic.NDFrame):
     methods from ndarray have been overridden to automatically exclude
     missing data (currently represented as NaN).
 
-    Operations between Series (+, -, /, *, **) align values based on their
+    Operations between Series (+, -, /, \\*, \\*\\*) align values based on their
     associated index values-- they need not be the same length. The result
     index will be the sorted union of the two indexes.