diff --git a/lib/prism/translation/parser/compiler.rb b/lib/prism/translation/parser/compiler.rb
index aaccee64c1..d11db12ae6 100644
--- a/lib/prism/translation/parser/compiler.rb
+++ b/lib/prism/translation/parser/compiler.rb
@@ -2178,7 +2178,7 @@ def string_nodes_from_line_continuations(unescaped, escaped, start_offset, openi
                   else
                     lines.sum do |line|
                       count = line.scan(/(\\*)n/).count { |(backslashes)| backslashes&.length&.odd? }
-                      count -= 1 if !line.end_with?("\n") && count > 0
+                      count -= 1 if line.match?(/(?:\A|[^\\])(?:\\\\)*\\n\z/) && count > 0
                       count
                     end
                   end
diff --git a/test/prism/fixtures/escaped_newline_with_trailing_content.txt b/test/prism/fixtures/escaped_newline_with_trailing_content.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fe947a3f10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/prism/fixtures/escaped_newline_with_trailing_content.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+"A
+B\nCC"