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A space in Morse code is a silence, not a signal. In writing it is shown as a slash, /, between words.
The gap between words lasts seven units, where a dot lasts one. The gap between letters lasts three units.
Meaning: the gap between words in Morse code (noun)
What does it mean word for word?
So "hi you" is written ···· ·· / −·−− −−− ··−: a space between the letters and a slash between the two words.
What mistakes should you avoid?
Some translators use a vertical bar or two spaces instead of the slash. All of them mean the same pause.
Did you know?
- In 1966 the American prisoner of war Jeremiah Denton blinked T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code with his eyes during a filmed interview.
- The first long-distance telegraph message in the United States, sent from Washington to Baltimore on 24 May 1844, read "What hath God wrought".
