The complete set of punctuation marks in International Morse code, each with its dot-dash pattern and click-to-play audio.
Click any mark to hear its Morse code played out loud. Each has its own multi-symbol pattern.
Letters and digits use short patterns of one to five elements. Punctuation marks are different — they're built from longer, mixed sequences of dots and dashes (often six elements) so they never get confused with a nearby letter.
Because punctuation patterns are longer and less common, operators learn them after the alphabet. For short notes and casual messages you can often skip them entirely; for formal or legal text, the period, comma and question mark keep the meaning unambiguous.
The full chart, the alphabet, and a translator for whole sentences.
Text ↔ Morse, with real audio playback.
Open tool →Letters, numbers and punctuation, click to hear.
Open tool →The complete printable chart, click to hear each one.
Open tool →One-way: type a message, hear and read the code.
Open tool →..--..). Put a space before and after it, just like any other character, so the decoder can tell where it begins and ends.