I love you in Morse code
Written out, I love you is ·· / ·−·· −−− ···− · / −·−− −−− ··−. In plain dots and dashes that is .. .-.. --- ...- . -.-- --- ..- with a longer pause between the three words.
It is easily the most looked-up phrase in Morse, and it ends up in real places: engraved inside rings, beaded into bracelets where a small bead is a dot and a long one is a dash, and inked as tattoos. If you are putting it somewhere permanent, play it above and count the symbols twice. A missing dot turns the sentence into nonsense.
You can also just send it. Tap it out on a table, blink it with a flashlight, or key it in the app. Short tap for a dot, long press for a dash, and let the pauses do the grammar.
How word spacing works
Morse has no punctuation between words, only silence, and the silence has exact lengths. The gap between symbols inside a letter lasts one unit, the gap between letters three units, and the gap between words seven units.
On paper that seven-unit pause is usually written as a slash, which is why the cards above show HELLO as ···· · ·−·· ·−·· −−− and I LOVE YOU with a / between the words. When you listen, stop thinking of the slash as a symbol. It is simply a breath.
Turn any word into Morse
Every card on this page is built from the same alphabet, so any word you can spell, you can send. Type a name, a message or a whole sentence into the translator below and it becomes Morse as you type, with sound and a one-tap copy.
If a letter carries an accent, it usually folds back to its base letter, and the recognised accented letters such as Ñ, Ä or É have codes of their own. Numbers work too.
The shortcuts operators use for affection
Radio operators compressed warmth into numbers long before text messaging did. 73 means best regards and closes a friendly contact, while 88 means hugs and kisses and is reserved for someone special.
Both are sent as plain digits, so 88 is −−−·· −−−··. If you enjoy these, the abbreviations page collects the signals operators still use every day.
