JAPANESE MORSE CODE

Subject: Japanese Morse Code
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 13:57:58 GMT
From: jsavard@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (John Savard)

Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan, rec.radio.shortwave, rec.radio.amateur.misc

This is the version of Morse Code used for Japanese kana syllables,
with International Morse equivalents also shown:

E      .       CD he
T      -       D1 mu

I      ..      DE double stroke following kana (nigori)
A      .-      B2 i
N      -.      C0 ta
M      --      D6 yo

S      ...     D7 ra
U      ..-     B3 u
R      .-.     C5 na
W      .--     D4 ya
D      -..     CE ho
K      -.-     DC wa
G      --.     D8 ri
O      ---     DA re

H      ....    C7 nu
V      ...-    B8 ku
F      ..-.    C1 ti
(1)    ..--    C9 no
L      .-..    B6 ka
(2)    .-.-    DB ro
P      .--.    C2 tu
J      .---    A6 wo
B      -...    CA ha
X      -..-    CF ma
C      -.-.    C6 ni
Y      -.--    B9 ke
Z      --..    CC hu
Q      --.-    C8 ne
(3)    ---.    BF sho
(4)    ----    BA ko

5      .....   5
4      ....-   4
(5)    ...-.
3      ...--   3
(6)    ..-..   C4 to
Inter  ..-.-   D0 mi
       ..--.   DF small circle following kana (han-nigori)
2      ..---   2
Wait   .-...   B5 o
(9)    .-..-      yi
+      .-.-.   DD n
       .-.--   C3 te
       .--..      ye
(a)    .--.-   B0 -
(b)    .---.   BE se
1      .----   1
6      -....   6
=      -...-   D2 me
/      -..-.   D3 mo
       -..--   D5 yu
(c)    -.-..   B7 ki
Start  -.-.-   BB sa
(      -.--.   D9 ru
       -.---   B4 e
7      --...   7
(e)    --..-   CB hi
       --.-.   BC shi
(f)    --.--   B1 a
8      ---..   8
       ---.-   BD su
9      ----.   9
0      -----   0

Notes represent accented letters in European languages or Turkish:

(1) u umlaut (2) a umlaut, cedilla (3) o umlaut or other accent
(4) ch, s cedilla (5) s hat (6) e primary accent (usually acute,
grave in Italian)
(9) e accent grave (a) a accent (b) j hat (c) c cedilla or accent
(e) z accent grave (f) n tilde

To remove ambiguities, the Japanese syllables are preceded by the hex
code, in the version of 8-bit ASCII that includes kana, of the kana
symbol represented. The symbols whose phonetic values I give as yi and
ye have the appearance, respectively:

    *      ********
*******            *
    *         *   *
 *  *         *  *
 *  *         *
*******       *
    *      *******

John Savard -- jsavard@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (John Savard)