diff --git a/include/swift/Basic/LangOptions.h b/include/swift/Basic/LangOptions.h
index 535496dcfa23e..e63e7952ca3a4 100644
--- a/include/swift/Basic/LangOptions.h
+++ b/include/swift/Basic/LangOptions.h
@@ -99,6 +99,16 @@ namespace swift {
     /// performed.
     llvm::Optional<llvm::Triple> TargetVariant;
 
+    /// The target triple to instantiate the internal clang instance.
+    /// When not specified, the compiler will use the value of -target to
+    /// instantiate the clang instance.
+    /// This is mainly used to avoid lowering the target triple to use for clang when
+    /// importing a .swiftinterface whose -target value may be different from
+    /// the loading module.
+    /// The lowering triple may result in multiple versions of the same Clang
+    /// modules being built.
+    llvm::Optional<llvm::Triple> ClangTarget;
+
     /// The SDK version, if known.
     Optional<llvm::VersionTuple> SDKVersion;
 
diff --git a/include/swift/Option/Options.td b/include/swift/Option/Options.td
index 4a87750912a9f..fbb178fff226d 100644
--- a/include/swift/Option/Options.td
+++ b/include/swift/Option/Options.td
@@ -1082,6 +1082,10 @@ def target_variant : Separate<["-"], "target-variant">,
   HelpText<"Generate 'zippered' code for macCatalyst that can run on the specified"
            " variant target triple in addition to the main -target triple">;
 
+def clang_target : Separate<["-"], "clang-target">,
+  Flags<[FrontendOption, SwiftAPIExtractOption, SwiftSymbolGraphExtractOption, SwiftAPIDigesterOption]>,
+  HelpText<"Separately set the target we should use for internal Clang instance">;
+
 def profile_generate : Flag<["-"], "profile-generate">,
   Flags<[FrontendOption, NoInteractiveOption]>,
   HelpText<"Generate instrumented code to collect execution counts">;
diff --git a/lib/ClangImporter/ClangImporter.cpp b/lib/ClangImporter/ClangImporter.cpp
index 2c968fdea1947..7e5f3a10f6225 100644
--- a/lib/ClangImporter/ClangImporter.cpp
+++ b/lib/ClangImporter/ClangImporter.cpp
@@ -730,7 +730,11 @@ importer::addCommonInvocationArguments(
     std::vector<std::string> &invocationArgStrs,
     ASTContext &ctx) {
   using ImporterImpl = ClangImporter::Implementation;
-  const llvm::Triple &triple = ctx.LangOpts.Target;
+  llvm::Triple triple = ctx.LangOpts.Target;
+  // Use clang specific target triple if given.
+  if (ctx.LangOpts.ClangTarget.hasValue()) {
+    triple = ctx.LangOpts.ClangTarget.getValue();
+  }
   SearchPathOptions &searchPathOpts = ctx.SearchPathOpts;
   const ClangImporterOptions &importerOpts = ctx.ClangImporterOpts;
 
diff --git a/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp b/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
index 0f69ea7926dab..bcc19ee54eb26 100644
--- a/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
+++ b/lib/Frontend/CompilerInvocation.cpp
@@ -686,6 +686,20 @@ static bool ParseLangArgs(LangOptions &Opts, ArgList &Args,
     Opts.TargetVariant = llvm::Triple(A->getValue());
   }
 
+  // Collect -clang-target value if specified in the front-end invocation.
+  // Usually, the driver will pass down a clang target with the
+  // exactly same value as the main target, so we could dignose the usage of
+  // unavailable APIs.
+  // The reason we cannot infer clang target from -target is that not all
+  // front-end invocation will include a -target to start with. For instance,
+  // when compiling a Swift module from a textual interface, -target isn't
+  // necessary because the textual interface hardcoded the proper target triple
+  // to use. Inferring -clang-target there will always give us the default
+  // target triple.
+  if (const Arg *A = Args.getLastArg(OPT_clang_target)) {
+    Opts.ClangTarget = llvm::Triple(A->getValue());
+  }
+
   Opts.EnableCXXInterop |= Args.hasArg(OPT_enable_cxx_interop);
   Opts.EnableObjCInterop =
       Args.hasFlag(OPT_enable_objc_interop, OPT_disable_objc_interop,
diff --git a/lib/Frontend/ModuleInterfaceLoader.cpp b/lib/Frontend/ModuleInterfaceLoader.cpp
index 173fab534b2c1..27352cdd08970 100644
--- a/lib/Frontend/ModuleInterfaceLoader.cpp
+++ b/lib/Frontend/ModuleInterfaceLoader.cpp
@@ -1269,6 +1269,17 @@ void InterfaceSubContextDelegateImpl::inheritOptionsForBuildingInterface(
     GenericArgs.push_back(triple);
   }
 
+  if (LangOpts.ClangTarget.hasValue()) {
+    genericSubInvocation.getLangOptions().ClangTarget = LangOpts.ClangTarget;
+    auto triple = ArgSaver.save(genericSubInvocation.getLangOptions()
+      .ClangTarget->getTriple());
+    assert(!triple.empty());
+    // In explicit module build, all PCMs will be built using the given clang target.
+    // So the Swift interface should know that as well to load these PCMs properly.
+    GenericArgs.push_back("-clang-target");
+    GenericArgs.push_back(triple);
+  }
+
   // Inherit the Swift language version
   genericSubInvocation.getLangOptions().EffectiveLanguageVersion =
     LangOpts.EffectiveLanguageVersion;
diff --git a/test/ScanDependencies/Inputs/Swift/XWithTarget.swiftinterface b/test/ScanDependencies/Inputs/Swift/XWithTarget.swiftinterface
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dbffe1bbdeb2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/ScanDependencies/Inputs/Swift/XWithTarget.swiftinterface
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+// swift-interface-format-version: 1.0
+// swift-module-flags: -module-name XWithTarget  -target x86_64-apple-macosx10.9
+import Swift
+@_exported import X
+public func overlayFuncX() { }
diff --git a/test/ScanDependencies/clang-target.swift b/test/ScanDependencies/clang-target.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..82b2b5a156a0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/ScanDependencies/clang-target.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// REQUIRES: VENDOR=apple
+// RUN: %empty-directory(%t.module-cache)
+// RUN: %target-swift-frontend -emit-module -o %t.foo.swiftmodule -module-cache-path %t.module-cache -I %S/Inputs/CHeaders -I %S/Inputs/Swift %s -target x86_64-apple-macosx10.14
+
+// Without -clang-target, we build two X.pcm
+// RUN: find %t.module-cache -name "X-*.pcm" | count 2
+
+// RUN: %empty-directory(%t.module-cache)
+// RUN: %target-swift-frontend -emit-module -o %t.foo.swiftmodule -module-cache-path %t.module-cache -I %S/Inputs/CHeaders -I %S/Inputs/Swift %s -target x86_64-apple-macosx10.14 -clang-target x86_64-apple-macosx10.14
+
+// With -clang-target, we build one X.pcm
+// RUN: find %t.module-cache -name "X-*.pcm" | count 1
+
+// RUN: %target-swift-frontend -scan-dependencies -module-cache-path %t.module-cache %s -o %t.deps.json -I %S/Inputs/CHeaders -I %S/Inputs/Swift -target x86_64-apple-macosx10.14 -clang-target x86_64-apple-macosx10.14
+// RUN: %FileCheck %s < %t.deps.json
+
+// CHECK: "-clang-target"
+// CHECK-NEXT: "x86_64-apple-macosx10.14"
+
+import X
+import XWithTarget