diff --git a/core/res/res/values-watch/donottranslate.xml b/core/res/res/values-watch/donottranslate.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d247ff6f56940
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/res/res/values-watch/donottranslate.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright (C) 2016 The Android Open Source Project
+
+     Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+     you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+     You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+     Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+     distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+     WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+     See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+     limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<resources>
+    <!-- DO NOT TRANSLATE Spans within this text are applied to style composing regions
+    within an EditText widget. The text content is ignored and not used.
+    Note: This is @color/material_deep_teal_200, cannot use @color references here. -->
+    <string name="candidates_style" translatable="false"><font color="#80cbc4">candidates</font></string>
+ </resources>
diff --git a/core/res/res/values-watch/styles_material.xml b/core/res/res/values-watch/styles_material.xml
index f5735e69347a1..a9f6e226510cf 100644
--- a/core/res/res/values-watch/styles_material.xml
+++ b/core/res/res/values-watch/styles_material.xml
@@ -88,9 +88,4 @@ please see styles_device_defaults.xml.
         <item name="virtualButtonPressedDrawable">?selectableItemBackground</item>
         <item name="descendantFocusability">blocksDescendants</item>
     </style>
-
-    <!-- DO NOTE TRANSLATE Spans within this text are applied to style composing regions
-    within an EditText widget. The text content is ignored and not used.
-    Note: This is @color/material_deep_teal_200, cannot use @color references here. -->
-    <string name="candidates_style"><font color="#80cbc4">candidates</font></string>
 </resources>
diff --git a/core/res/res/values/donottranslate.xml b/core/res/res/values/donottranslate.xml
index a139529482da3..3a1679c19fc88 100644
--- a/core/res/res/values/donottranslate.xml
+++ b/core/res/res/values/donottranslate.xml
@@ -26,4 +26,7 @@
     <string name="icu_abbrev_wday_month_day_no_year">eeeMMMMd</string>
     <!-- @hide DO NOT TRANSLATE. date formatting pattern for system ui.-->
     <string name="system_ui_date_pattern">@string/icu_abbrev_wday_month_day_no_year</string>
+    <!-- @hide DO NOT TRANSLATE Spans within this text are applied to style composing regions
+    within an EditText widget. The text content is ignored and not used. -->
+    <string name="candidates_style" translatable="false"><u>candidates</u></string>
 </resources>
diff --git a/core/res/res/values/strings.xml b/core/res/res/values/strings.xml
index 9002ed4920196..6b3b13df98bdb 100644
--- a/core/res/res/values/strings.xml
+++ b/core/res/res/values/strings.xml
@@ -3122,8 +3122,6 @@
     <string name="fast_scroll_alphabet">\u0020ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</string>
     <string name="fast_scroll_numeric_alphabet">\u00200123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</string>
 
-    <string name="candidates_style"><u>candidates</u></string>
-
     <!-- External media notification strings -->
     <skip />