Every digit is five signals long. 0 is five dashes. 1 starts with a dot then four dashes, 2 two dots and three dashes, and so on until 5 (five dots). From 6 the pattern flips: dashes move to the front.
That five-unit length is a useful clue when you are learning how to read Morse. If a group is clearly longer than most letters, it is often a figure. Combine numbers with the alphabet to send times, years, or a short code such as 12345.
0
-----
dah-dah-dah-dah-dah
1
.----
dit-dah-dah-dah-dah
2
..---
dit-dit-dah-dah-dah
3
...--
dit-dit-dit-dah-dah
4
....-
dit-dit-dit-dit-dah
5
.....
dit-dit-dit-dit-dit
6
-....
dah-dit-dit-dit-dit
7
--...
dah-dah-dit-dit-dit
8
---..
dah-dah-dah-dit-dit
9
----.
dah-dah-dah-dah-dit
No matching characters.
Think of a five-slot frame. Dots slide in from the left until you hit 5, then dashes take over from the left:
Encode a number the same way you encode a word: letter-sized gaps between digits, a slash if you need a space in the original text. Try it in the English to Morse translator.
Every digit is five signals long. 0 is five dashes (-----). 1 is .----, 5 is five dots, and 9 is ----. The five-unit length is a clue that you heard a figure rather than a letter.
Encode each digit the same way as a letter, with a letter gap between digits. A space in the original text becomes a word gap, written here as a slash.
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