low surrogate

English

Noun

low surrogate (plural low surrogates)

1. (computing, Unicode) 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.

Hypernyms

• surrogate

Coordinate terms

• high surrogate