“MERRY CHRISTMAS” in Morse Code
−− · ·−· ·−· −·−− / −·−· ···· ·−· ·· ··· − −− ·− ···
Every December, amateur radio fills with this phrase keyed across continents. It is one of the longest common greetings in Morse — fifteen letters — and CHRISTMAS alone spans the code’s extremes, from T’s bare single dash to the four-element shapes of C and H.
Letter by letter
M −− E · R ·−· R ·−· Y −·−−
C −·−· H ···· R ·−· I ·· S ··· T − M −− A ·− S ···
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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