diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index ec32f9ba49b03f..5ada0ad626bda8 100755
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -2106,6 +2106,10 @@ def list(self, verbose=True, *, members=None):
            output is produced. `members' is optional and must be a subset of the
            list returned by getmembers().
         """
+        # Convert tarinfo type to stat type.
+        type2mode = {REGTYPE: stat.S_IFREG, SYMTYPE: stat.S_IFLNK,
+                     FIFOTYPE: stat.S_IFIFO, CHRTYPE: stat.S_IFCHR,
+                     DIRTYPE: stat.S_IFDIR, BLKTYPE: stat.S_IFBLK}
         self._check()
 
         if members is None:
@@ -2115,7 +2119,8 @@ def list(self, verbose=True, *, members=None):
                 if tarinfo.mode is None:
                     _safe_print("??????????")
                 else:
-                    _safe_print(stat.filemode(tarinfo.mode))
+                    modetype = type2mode.get(tarinfo.type, 0)
+                    _safe_print(stat.filemode(modetype | tarinfo.mode))
                 _safe_print("%s/%s" % (tarinfo.uname or tarinfo.uid,
                                        tarinfo.gname or tarinfo.gid))
                 if tarinfo.ischr() or tarinfo.isblk():
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index edfeac6d6a5edf..da5009126b3815 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -323,11 +323,23 @@ def test_list_verbose(self):
         # accessories if verbose flag is being used
         # ...
         # ?rw-r--r-- tarfile/tarfile     7011 2003-01-06 07:19:43 ustar/conttype
-        # ?rw-r--r-- tarfile/tarfile     7011 2003-01-06 07:19:43 ustar/regtype
+        # -rw-r--r-- tarfile/tarfile     7011 2003-01-06 07:19:43 ustar/regtype
+        # drwxr-xr-x tarfile/tarfile        0 2003-01-05 15:19:43 ustar/dirtype/
         # ...
-        self.assertRegex(out, (br'\?rw-r--r-- tarfile/tarfile\s+7011 '
-                               br'\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d\s+\d\d:\d\d:\d\d '
-                               br'ustar/\w+type ?\r?\n') * 2)
+        #
+        # Array of values to modify the regex below:
+        #  ((file_type, file_permissions, file_length), ...)
+        type_perm_lengths = (
+            (br'\?', b'rw-r--r--', b'7011'), (b'-', b'rw-r--r--', b'7011'),
+            (b'd', b'rwxr-xr-x', b'0'), (b'd', b'rwxr-xr-x', b'255'),
+            (br'\?', b'rw-r--r--', b'0'), (b'l', b'rwxrwxrwx', b'0'),
+            (b'b', b'rw-rw----', b'3,0'), (b'c', b'rw-rw-rw-', b'1,3'),
+            (b'p', b'rw-r--r--', b'0'))
+        self.assertRegex(out, b''.join(
+            [(tp + (br'%s tarfile/tarfile\s+%s ' % (perm, ln) +
+                    br'\d{4}-\d\d-\d\d\s+\d\d:\d\d:\d\d '
+                    br'ustar/\w+type[/>\sa-z-]*\n')) for tp, perm, ln
+             in type_perm_lengths]))
         # Make sure it prints the source of link with verbose flag
         self.assertIn(b'ustar/symtype -> regtype', out)
         self.assertIn(b'./ustar/linktest2/symtype -> ../linktest1/regtype', out)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-17-13-56-30.gh-issue-87264.RgfHCv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-17-13-56-30.gh-issue-87264.RgfHCv.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..fa987d4f0af9ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-12-17-13-56-30.gh-issue-87264.RgfHCv.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed tarfile list() method to show file type.