diff --git a/ports/unix/mpconfigport_coverage.h b/ports/unix/mpconfigport_coverage.h
index f3fbee6bfa8af0da919bd49f1057838a0ef6e09c..b2f1d6e88ea599bb4ea580cce105db3fa16ee044 100644
--- a/ports/unix/mpconfigport_coverage.h
+++ b/ports/unix/mpconfigport_coverage.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #define MICROPY_MODULE_GETATTR         (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_DELATTR_SETATTR     (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_REVERSE_SPECIAL_METHODS (1)
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_MEMORYVIEW_ITEMSIZE (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_NEXT2      (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_RANGE_BINOP (1)
 #define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_HELP       (1)
diff --git a/py/mpconfig.h b/py/mpconfig.h
index 38b36a4b18762b330bc7c4ce36b83bcfa53b197b..2d857d8f6dbedd04de73c120d9b539f003b4428e 100644
--- a/py/mpconfig.h
+++ b/py/mpconfig.h
@@ -856,6 +856,11 @@ typedef double mp_float_t;
 #define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_MEMORYVIEW (0)
 #endif
 
+// Whether to support memoryview.itemsize attribute
+#ifndef MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_MEMORYVIEW_ITEMSIZE
+#define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_MEMORYVIEW_ITEMSIZE (0)
+#endif
+
 // Whether to support set object
 #ifndef MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_SET
 #define MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_SET (1)
diff --git a/py/objarray.c b/py/objarray.c
index 02f6dff528fc3e3173546fffc7510aaf4f59b8bf..89d2f21806875723b3d69fe025887b044f11e573 100644
--- a/py/objarray.c
+++ b/py/objarray.c
@@ -231,6 +231,19 @@ STATIC mp_obj_t memoryview_make_new(const mp_obj_type_t *type_in, size_t n_args,
 
     return MP_OBJ_FROM_PTR(self);
 }
+
+#if MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_MEMORYVIEW_ITEMSIZE
+STATIC void memoryview_attr(mp_obj_t self_in, qstr attr, mp_obj_t *dest) {
+    if (dest[0] != MP_OBJ_NULL) {
+        return;
+    }
+    if (attr == MP_QSTR_itemsize) {
+        mp_obj_array_t *self = MP_OBJ_TO_PTR(self_in);
+        dest[0] = MP_OBJ_NEW_SMALL_INT(mp_binary_get_size('@', self->typecode & TYPECODE_MASK, NULL));
+    }
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif
 
 STATIC mp_obj_t array_unary_op(mp_unary_op_t op, mp_obj_t o_in) {
@@ -560,6 +573,9 @@ const mp_obj_type_t mp_type_memoryview = {
     .getiter = array_iterator_new,
     .unary_op = array_unary_op,
     .binary_op = array_binary_op,
+    #if MICROPY_PY_BUILTINS_MEMORYVIEW_ITEMSIZE
+    .attr = memoryview_attr,
+    #endif
     .subscr = array_subscr,
     .buffer_p = { .get_buffer = array_get_buffer },
 };
diff --git a/tests/basics/memoryview_itemsize.py b/tests/basics/memoryview_itemsize.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..108c69cfdc0f366cea0fb2494754b25b9aa574fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/basics/memoryview_itemsize.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+try:
+    memoryview(b'a').itemsize
+    from array import array
+except:
+    print("SKIP")
+    raise SystemExit
+
+for code in ['b', 'h', 'i', 'l', 'q', 'f', 'd']:
+    print(memoryview(array(code)).itemsize)