diff --git a/src/embed/internal/embedtest/embed_test.go b/src/embed/internal/embedtest/embed_test.go
index bfd94af69d2..1337e421bda 100644
--- a/src/embed/internal/embedtest/embed_test.go
+++ b/src/embed/internal/embedtest/embed_test.go
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ func testDir(t *testing.T, f embed.FS, name string, expect ...string) {
 	}
 }
 
+// Tests for issue 49514.
+var _ = '"'
+var _ = '\''
+var _ = '🦆'
+
 func TestGlobal(t *testing.T) {
 	testFiles(t, global, "concurrency.txt", "Concurrency is not parallelism.\n")
 	testFiles(t, global, "testdata/hello.txt", "hello, world\n")
diff --git a/src/go/build/read.go b/src/go/build/read.go
index 6115ef810c7..de5c33a4f84 100644
--- a/src/go/build/read.go
+++ b/src/go/build/read.go
@@ -240,6 +240,27 @@ func (r *importReader) findEmbed(first bool) bool {
 				}
 			}
 
+		case '\'':
+			startLine = false
+			for r.err == nil {
+				if r.eof {
+					r.syntaxError()
+				}
+				c = r.readByteNoBuf()
+				if c == '\\' {
+					r.readByteNoBuf()
+					if r.err != nil {
+						r.syntaxError()
+						return false
+					}
+					continue
+				}
+				if c == '\'' {
+					c = r.readByteNoBuf()
+					goto Reswitch
+				}
+			}
+
 		case '/':
 			c = r.readByteNoBuf()
 			switch c {