diff --git a/lib/parse.js b/lib/parse.js
index 619034c6..35615752 100644
--- a/lib/parse.js
+++ b/lib/parse.js
@@ -2565,7 +2565,7 @@ function parse($TEXT, options) {
                 unexpected(tmp);
             }
           case "name":
-            if (tmp.value == "yield" && !is_token(peek(), "punc", ":")
+            if (tmp.value == "yield" && !is_token(peek(), "punc", ":") && !is_token(peek(), "punc", "(")
                 && S.input.has_directive("use strict") && !is_in_generator()) {
                 token_error(tmp, "Unexpected yield identifier inside strict mode");
             }
diff --git a/test/mocha/yield.js b/test/mocha/yield.js
index 22b5bb07..26a66ec1 100644
--- a/test/mocha/yield.js
+++ b/test/mocha/yield.js
@@ -102,4 +102,15 @@ describe("Yield", function() {
             assert.throws(test(tests[i]), fail, tests[i]);
         }
     });
+
+    it("Should allow yield to be used as class/object property name", function() {
+        var input = [
+            '"use strict";',
+            "({yield:42});",
+            "({yield(){}});",
+            "(class{yield(){}});",
+            "class C{yield(){}}",
+        ].join("");
+        assert.strictEqual(UglifyJS.minify(input, { compress: false }).code, input);
+    });
 });