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high surrogate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English

Syllables
high- -sur-ro-gate
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

noun

A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

Inflected Forms

high surrogates (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

low surrogate

Questions

What does high surrogate mean?
A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the high 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

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