diff --git a/share/man/man7/hier.7 b/share/man/man7/hier.7
index 3a95cc5a17c..03030fa3ae7 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/hier.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/hier.7
@@ -174,6 +174,13 @@ system administrators as a temporary mount point
 automounted NFS shares;
 see
 .Xr auto_master 5
+.It Pa /nonexistent/
+a non-existent directory;
+by convention, it serves as a home directory
+for special user accounts
+that need no home directory;
+see also
+.Pa /var/empty/
 .It Pa /proc/
 process file system;
 see