# Thank you in Morse code

**Thank you in Morse code is "- .... .- -. -.- / -.-- --- ..-". It is 8 characters made of 10 dots and 12 dashes, and takes about 5.1 seconds to send at 20 words per minute.**

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

*Source: https://morse.iamcanturk.dev/words/thank-you/*

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## What it means

Operators shorten this to TU, sent as one flowing pair rather than two separate letters. Spelling out THANK YOU takes roughly ten times as long as TU to key, which is why almost nobody does it on the air — Morse conventions were shaped by people paid by the message.

## Letter by letter

| Character | Code | Spoken |
| --- | --- | --- |
| T | `-` | dah |
| H | `....` | di-di-di-dit |
| A | `.-` | di-dah |
| N | `-.` | dah-dit |
| K | `-.-` | dah-di-dah |
| Y | `-.--` | dah-di-dah-dah |
| O | `---` | dah-dah-dah |
| U | `..-` | di-di-dah |

A space separates letters and a slash separates words.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Thank you in Morse code?

Thank you in Morse code is "- .... .- -. -.- / -.-- --- ..-". Operators shorten this to TU, sent as one flowing pair rather than two separate letters. Spelling out THANK YOU takes roughly ten times as long as TU to key, which is why almost nobody does it on the air — Morse conventions were shaped by people paid by the message.

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

At 20 words per minute, Thank you takes about 5.1 seconds to send. That counts its 10 dots and 12 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.

### How do you write Thank you in Morse code?

Write it as "- .... .- -. -.- / -.-- --- ..-". Each group of dots and dashes is one letter, a single space separates letters and a slash separates words, so the two words of Thank you are divided by one slash.

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