diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 075c5a3..67cf3be 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ webui:
 ```
 Docker Compose treats $ as the start of an environment variable.
 Since bcrypt hashes can contain $ characters, Compose will try to substitute them and may emit warnings or truncate the value.
-To pass a literal $, you must escape it as $$
+To pass a literal ''$'', you must escape it as ''$$''
 
 
 ### Running