diff --git a/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp b/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
index b7e8f5d572c..1ca8f4cac03 100644
--- a/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
+++ b/src/tools/clangbackend/source/tokeninfo.cpp
@@ -597,7 +597,9 @@ void TokenInfo::punctuationOrOperatorKind()
             break;
     }
 
-    if (m_types.mixinHighlightingTypes.empty() && kind != CXCursor_InclusionDirective) {
+    if (m_types.mixinHighlightingTypes.empty()
+        && kind != CXCursor_InclusionDirective
+        && kind != CXCursor_PreprocessingDirective) {
         const ClangString spelling = m_token->spelling();
         if (spelling == "<")
             m_types.mixinHighlightingTypes.push_back(HighlightingType::AngleBracketOpen);