diff --git a/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py b/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py
index ea472f1b3cd2..bb7009801d83 100644
--- a/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py
+++ b/numpy/core/_add_newdocs.py
@@ -1072,6 +1072,43 @@ def luf(lamdaexpr, *args, **kwargs):
 
     """)
 
+add_newdoc('numpy.core.multiarray', 'compare_chararrays',
+    """
+    compare_chararrays(a, b, cmp_op, rstrip)
+
+    Performs element-wise comparison of two string arrays using the
+    comparison operator specified by `cmp_op`.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    a, b : array_like
+        Arrays to be compared.
+    cmp_op : {"<", "<=", "==", ">=", ">", "!="}
+        Type of comparison.
+    rstrip : Boolean
+        If True, the spaces at the end of Strings are removed before the comparison.
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    out : ndarray
+        The output array of type Boolean with the same shape as a and b.
+
+    Raises
+    ------
+    ValueError
+        If `cmp_op` is not valid.
+    TypeError
+        If at least one of `a` or `b` is a non-string array
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> a = np.array(["a", "b", "cde"])
+    >>> b = np.array(["a", "a", "dec"])
+    >>> np.compare_chararrays(a, b, ">", True)
+    array([False,  True, False])
+
+    """)
+
 add_newdoc('numpy.core.multiarray', 'fromiter',
     """
     fromiter(iterable, dtype, count=-1)