# Love in Morse code

**Love in Morse code is ".-.. --- ...- .". It is 4 characters made of 7 dots and 5 dashes, and takes about 2.3 seconds to send at 20 words per minute.**

*By Can Türk (https://iamcanturk.dev), MorseForge.*

*Source: https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/words/love/*

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## What it means

One of the most common Morse tattoos and engravings. Worth knowing before it goes on skin: Morse has no case and no punctuation unless you add it, so the written form is identical whether the original was LOVE or love, and there is no way to encode the difference.

## Letter by letter

| Character | Code | Spoken |
| --- | --- | --- |
| L | `.-..` | di-dah-di-dit |
| O | `---` | dah-dah-dah |
| V | `...-` | di-di-di-dah |
| E | `.` | dit |

A space separates letters and a slash separates words.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Love in Morse code?

Love in Morse code is ".-.. --- ...- .". One of the most common Morse tattoos and engravings. Worth knowing before it goes on skin: Morse has no case and no punctuation unless you add it, so the written form is identical whether the original was LOVE or love, and there is no way to encode the difference.

### How long does it take to send Love in Morse code?

At 20 words per minute, Love takes about 2.3 seconds to send. That counts its 7 dots and 5 dashes plus the silences between them, timed by the PARIS standard, in which one unit, the length of a dot, is 60 milliseconds at that speed.

## Related words: Feelings

- [I love you](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/words/i-love-you/)
- [Hope](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/words/hope/)

## More

- [Every word in Morse code](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/words/)
- [The Morse code alphabet](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/morse-code-alphabet/)
- [Translate your own text](https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/morse-code-translator/)