diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cc521ff..08527be 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,18 +13,19 @@ edition = "2018"
 
 [features]
 default = [ "std" ]
-std = [ "alloc", "serde/std", "unicode-normalization/std" ]
+std = [ "alloc", "serde/std", "unicode-normalization?/std" ]
 rand = [ "crate_rand", "rand_core" ]
-alloc = [ "unicode-normalization" ]
+alloc = []
+unicode-normalization = [ "dep:unicode-normalization", "alloc" ] 
 
 # Note: English is the standard for bip39 so always included
-chinese-simplified = []
-chinese-traditional = []
+chinese-simplified = [ "unicode-normalization" ]
+chinese-traditional = [ "unicode-normalization" ]
 czech = []
 french = []
 italian = []
-japanese = []
-korean = []
+japanese = [ "unicode-normalization" ]
+korean = [ "unicode-normalization" ]
 portuguese = []
 spanish = []
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index feb3ac2..0ead17a 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ pub extern crate rand_core;
 #[cfg(feature = "serde")]
 pub extern crate serde;
 
-#[cfg(feature = "alloc")]
+#[cfg(feature = "unicode-normalization")]
 use alloc::borrow::Cow;
 use core::{fmt, str};