Phrase guide

low surrogate

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

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noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: Unicode

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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