high surrogate

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.

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Meanings

nounhigh surrogate (plural high surrogates)

plural high surrogates

  1. UnicodecomputingA 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.
    1. UnicodecomputingA code point in the range U+D800 through U+DB7F (the High Surrogates block), excluding the range of code points used in encoding characters from the private-use planes 15 and 16.

Synonyms & antonyms

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surrogate
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APA

high surrogate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/high%20surrogate

MLA

“high surrogate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/high%20surrogate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “high surrogate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/high%20surrogate.

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