Codes·H
H
····
Hotel

H in Morse code — ····

Letters

H is ···· in Morse, Hotel in the NATO alphabet, and dots 125 in braille. Sending it takes 7 time units.

All twenty-six have a Morse code, a NATO word and a braille cell.

Morse code
····
NATO word
Hotel
Dot numbers
125
Braille
Time units
7
At 20 wpm
420 ms
ASCII
72

Seen as timing

A dot is one unit, a dash three, and the gap between them one. At 20 words per minute a unit is 60 milliseconds.

Words chosen so a letter survives a bad radio link. Alfa and Juliett are spelled oddly on purpose — some languages would swallow the ph and the final t.

Nearby characters

How to read this

  • In Morse a dot is one unit and a dash three. The commoner the letter, the shorter the code — E is a single dot.
  • Each NATO word starts with its own letter. It is for saying a letter clearly over the radio.
  • A braille cell has six dot positions, so there are sixty-four of them. The empty one is the space between words.
  • Digits in braille reuse the cells of a–j; a number sign in front tells them apart.

Frequently asked questions

Q. What is H in Morse code?

···· — 4 dots and 0 dashes.

Q. How long does it take to send?

7 time units, which is 420 ms at 20 words per minute.

Q. How is H said over the radio?

As Hotel.

Q. How is it written in braille?

Dots 125 are raised: ⠓.