Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

low surrogate

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables
low -sur-ro-gate
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

Inflected Forms

low surrogates (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

high surrogate

Questions

What does low surrogate mean?
A code point in the range U+DC00 through U+DFFF (the Low Surrogates block), used in UTF-16 to encode the low 10 bits of the 20-bit offset above U+FFFF of the code point belonging to a supplementary character.

How to pronounce low surrogate

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