diff --git a/numpy/_core/src/multiarray/methods.c b/numpy/_core/src/multiarray/methods.c
index 62a36f155838..dd3a1469ecd1 100644
--- a/numpy/_core/src/multiarray/methods.c
+++ b/numpy/_core/src/multiarray/methods.c
@@ -1581,7 +1581,7 @@ _deepcopy_call(char *iptr, char *optr, PyArray_Descr *dtype,
             }
         }
     }
-    else {
+    else if (PyDataType_ISOBJECT(dtype)) {
         PyObject *itemp, *otemp;
         PyObject *res;
         memcpy(&itemp, iptr, sizeof(itemp));
diff --git a/numpy/_core/tests/test_stringdtype.py b/numpy/_core/tests/test_stringdtype.py
index e765d64609d2..7ed7f975b04b 100644
--- a/numpy/_core/tests/test_stringdtype.py
+++ b/numpy/_core/tests/test_stringdtype.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
+import copy
 import itertools
 import os
 import pickle
-import string
 import sys
 import tempfile
 
@@ -371,6 +371,13 @@ def test_pickle(dtype, string_list):
     os.remove(f.name)
 
 
+def test_stdlib_copy(dtype, string_list):
+    arr = np.array(string_list, dtype=dtype)
+
+    assert_array_equal(copy.copy(arr), arr)
+    assert_array_equal(copy.deepcopy(arr), arr)
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "strings",
     [
@@ -1674,12 +1681,12 @@ def test_zeros(self):
         assert_array_equal(z, "")
 
     def test_copy(self):
-        c = self.a.copy()
-        assert_array_equal(self.get_flags(c), self.get_flags(self.a))
-        assert_array_equal(c, self.a)
-        offsets = self.get_view(c)['offset']
-        assert offsets[2] == 1
-        assert offsets[3] == 1 + len(self.s_medium) + self.sizeofstr // 2
+        for c in [self.a.copy(), copy.copy(self.a), copy.deepcopy(self.a)]:
+            assert_array_equal(self.get_flags(c), self.get_flags(self.a))
+            assert_array_equal(c, self.a)
+            offsets = self.get_view(c)['offset']
+            assert offsets[2] == 1
+            assert offsets[3] == 1 + len(self.s_medium) + self.sizeofstr // 2
 
     def test_arena_use_with_setting(self):
         c = np.zeros_like(self.a)