“MARIA” in Morse Code

MARIA descends from M’s double dash through progressively lighter letters to end on ·−. Spanish-language telegraphy sent this name millions of times; its 6-dot/5-dash balance makes it glide rather than march.

Letter by letter

Reading it: a dot (·) is one unit long, a dash (−) is three. Letters are separated by a three-unit silence — written as a space — and words by seven units, written as a slash. Want to hear it slower or flash it as light? Open it in the morse code translator.

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