MORSE VARIANTS

Morse Code Variants Around the World

Real Morse alphabets developed for Japanese, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Thai, Chinese, and the original American railroad system.

International Morse code only covers Latin letters and digits. Languages with non-Latin scripts developed their own Morse adaptations. Wabun for Japanese katakana, a Cyrillic table for Russian, separate alphabets for Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, and Korean. The original 'American' Morse used by US railroads in the 1850s also looks notably different from the international standard adopted in 1865.

Wabun Code: Japanese Morse

Japanese · Katakana

Wabun code is the Morse code variant developed for Japanese, mapping each katakana character (and a few additional symbols) to a unique sequence of dots and dashes.

Russian Morse Code (Cyrillic)

Russian (and other Cyrillic) · Cyrillic

Russian Morse extends international Morse with codes for the Cyrillic letters that don't appear in Latin script.

Greek Morse Code

Greek · Greek

Greek Morse maps each letter of the Greek alphabet to a Morse pattern.

Arabic Morse Code

Arabic · Arabic

Arabic Morse encodes the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet plus hamza.