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Because associating letters and numbers with audible "dits" and "dahs" can be difficult, many people have developed mnemonic
Mnemonic
A mnemonic device is a mind memory and/or learning aid. Commonly, mnemonics are verbal—such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something—but may be visual, kinesthetic or auditory. Mnemonics rely on associations between easy-to-remember constructs which can be...

s to help remember the Morse code
Morse code
Morse code is a type of character encoding that transmits telegraphic information using rhythm. Morse code uses a standardized sequence of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a given message...

 equivalent of characters.

Many different mnemonics can be created for the same subject matter and no one mnemonic is the definitive way to learn Morse code.

Syllabic Mnemonics based on the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Letter | Phonetic| Morse Code| Mnemonic
(explanation)
A
A
The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled a; the plural is aes, though this is rare.- History :...

 
Alpha ·- al-FA
(that's what it says!)
B
B
B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled bee, plural bees.-History:The letter B might have started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet...

 
Bravo -··· YEAH! *clap* *clap* *clap*
(applause)
C
C
Ĉ or ĉ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiceless postalveolar affricate , and is equivalent to the voiceless postalveolar affricate, , or the voiceless retroflex affricate,...

 
Charlie -·-· CHAR-lie's AN-gels
(1970s TV
Television
Television is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...

 show)
D
D
D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled dee, plural dees.- History :The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this...

 
Delta -·· NEW or-leans
E
E
E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. It is also the second vowel in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled e; the plural is ees, though this is rare...

 
Echo · hey!
F
F
F is the sixth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff.-History:The origin of F is the Semitic letter vâv that represented the sound /v/, and originally probably represented either a "hook" or a "club"...

 
Foxtrot ··-· *step**step**BRUSH**step*
(that's how one foxtrots
Foxtrot (Dance)
The Foxtrot is a ballroom dance.-History:It is often said that foxtrot took its name from its inventor, the vaudeville actor Harry Fox; however the exact origins are unclear...

!)
G
G
G is the seventh letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee.-History:The letter G was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of C to distinguish Latin voiced velar from voiceless...

 
Golf --· HOLE IN one!
H
H
H is the eighth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in both British and American English is aitch , plural aitches, though it is also pronounced haitch in some dialects .-History:...

 
Hotel ···· ho-li-day-inn
I
I
I is the ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its English name is spelled i; the plural is ies, though this is rare.-History:...

 
India ·· bom-bay
J
J
Ĵ or ĵ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar fricative , and is equivalent to the voiced postalveolar fricative, , or the voiced retroflex fricative, ....

 
Juliet ·--- where-FORE ART THOU?
K
K
K is the eleventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay.-History and usage:...

 
Kilo -·- POUND for POUND
L
L
Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Łacinka , Wilamowicean, Navajo, Dene Suline, Inupiaq, Zuni and Dogrib alphabets, and of several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language...

 
Lima ·-·· li-MA pe-ru
(Lima
Lima
Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, on a coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It forms a contiguous urban area with the seaport of Callao...

 is the capital city of Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico...

.)
M
M
M is the thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled em.-History:The letter M derives its shape from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu . Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water. It is known that Semitic people working in Egypt c...

 
Mike -- LIKE MIKE
(Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a retired American professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed...

 advertising
Advertising
Advertising is a form of communication used to influence individuals to purchase products or services or support political candidates or ideas. Frequently it communicates a message that includes the name of the product or service and how that product or service could potentially benefit the consumer...

 jingle)
N
N
N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en.- Usage :N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with is , which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages,...

 
November AU-tumn
O
O
O is the fifteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled o; the plural is oes, though this is rare.- History :...

 
Oscar --- SUN-NY-DAY
(Sesame Street
Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame Street is well known for its Muppets characters created by Jim Henson. It premiered on November 10, 1969, and...

 theme song—as in "Oscar the Grouch"
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character on the television program Sesame Street. He has a green body , has no nose, and lives in a garbage can. His favorite thing in life is trash; evidence for this is the song "I Love Trash"...

)
P
P
P is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee.-History:The Semitic Pê , as well as the Greek Π or π , and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet, all symbolized , a voiceless bilabial plosive.-Usage:In English and...

 
Papa ·--· of DOC-TOR good
(from "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (album)
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves is the seventh studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released on September 1971 by Kapp Records. For the realization of this album, Cher left her husband Sonny Bono to produce the album, and for the first time she collabored with Snuff Garrett and with Al Capps for...

, by Cher
Cher
Cher is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.Cher began her career at the age of seventeen and came to...

.)
Q
Q
Q is the seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue.- History :The Semitic sound value of Qôp was , a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones...

 
Quebec --·- A-LOU-et-TUH
(a song
Alouette (song)
"Alouette" is a popular French Canadian children's song about plucking the feathers off a skylark, a small bird. It originated with the French Canadian fur trade. Although it is in French, it is well-known among speakers of other languages; in this way it is similar to "Frère Jacques"...

 sung by French Canadian
French Canadian
French Canadian refers to a nation or ethnic group of French descent that originated in Canada during the period of French colonization beginning in the 17th century. They constitute the main French-speaking population of Canada...

s)
R
R
R is the eighteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ar; its name in Hiberno-English is or .-History:...

 
Romeo ·-· ro-MER-o
"Romeo" in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...

.
S
S
S is the nineteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ess, or usually es- when part of a compound word; the plural is esses.- Usage :...

 
Sierra ··· ne-va-da
(the Sierra Nevada)
T
T
T is the twentieth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled tee. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.- History :...

 
Tango - *DIP*
(When the boy dips the girl, during a tango
Tango (dance)
Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after.Early tango was known as tango criollo, or simply tango...

, he holds her there for a few seconds.)
U
U
U is the twenty-first letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u; the plural is ues, though this is rare.-History:...

 
Uniform ··- u-ni-FORM
(that's what it says!)
V
V
V is the twenty-second letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee.-The letter:The letter V ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details....

 
Victor ···- *the first 4 notes of Beethoven's 5th
Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1804–08. This symphony is one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of European classical music, and one of the most often played symphonies. It comprises four movements: an opening sonata allegro, an...

*
(The 1st movement is also called the "Ode
Ode
Ode is a lyrical verse. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode...

 to Victory")
W
W
W is the twenty-third letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u; the plural is double-ues, though this is rare.-History:...

 
Whiskey ·-- jack AND COKE
(Jack Daniel's whiskey
Jack Daniel's
Jack Daniel's is a brand of Tennessee whiskey that is among the world's best-selling liquors and is known for its square bottles and black label. It has been prominently featured in movies, songs, and novels, and is strongly linked to rock and roll, country music, American biker culture, Jimmy...

, and Coca Cola
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines internationally. The Coca-Cola Company claims that the beverage is sold in more than 200 countries...

.)
X
X
X is the twenty-fourth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex, plural exes .-History:...

 
X-ray -··- ON-ly the BONES
(that's all which is visible in an x-ray image
X-ray machine
An X-ray generator is a device used to generate X-rays. These devices are commonly used by radiographers to acquire an x-ray image of the inside of an object but they are also used in sterilization or fluorescence....

.)
Y
Y
The letter Y is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled wye or occasionally wy, plural wyes.-History:...

 
Yankee -·-- ON a PO-NY
(from Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle
"Yankee Doodle" is a well-known British/American song, the origin of which dates back to the Seven Years' War. It is often sung patriotically in the United States today...

)
Z
Z
Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-Name and pronunciation:In many dialects of English, the letter's name is zed, , reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta . In American English, its name is zee , deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal form...

 
Zulu --·· SHA-KA zu-lu
(name of famous Zulu king
Shaka
Shaka was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom....

.)

Character | Morse Code| Syllabic| Mnemonic
. ·-·-·- ro-ME-ro POUND for POUND Romero is, Pound for Pound, the best fighter
Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...

 period.
?
?
or is a letter derived from the Latin alphabet. Both glyphs of the majuscule and minuscule forms of this letter are based on the rotated form of a minuscule e; a similar letter with identical minuscule is used in the Pan-Nigerian Alphabet, but has the capital form majuscule , based on a...

 
··--·· un-i-FORM NEW or-leans After the hurricane
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest hurricane, as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States...

, the Uniformed personnel in New Orleans were clueless!
-·-·-- AU-tumn ON a PO-NY He was astonished to see his daughter, Autumn, riding on a pony at such a young age.
--··-- HOLE IN one, Jack AND COKE. After hitting a hole in one, the golfer paused for a Jack and Coke, before starting the on the next hole.
·--·-· al-FA CHAR-lie's AN-gels Because Alpha Females don't have time to sit around the office, Charlie's Angels now get their instructions via e-mail.
$
Dollar sign
The dollar sign is a symbol primarily used to indicate the various dollar and peso units of currency around the world.-Origin:The sign is attested in business correspondence between the British, Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans in the 1770s, as referring to the Spanish-Mexican peso, known as...

 
···-··- ne-va-da ON-ly the BONES After gambling away all his money in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, fine dining, and entertainment. Las Vegas, which bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, is famous for the number of...

, Nevada, he had only the bones left to eat.
=
Equals sign
The equal sign, equals sign, or "=" is a mathematical symbol used to indicate equality. It was invented in 1557 by Welshman Robert Recorde. The equals sign is placed between the things stated to be exactly the same, as in an equation...

 
-···- AU-tumn u-ni-FORM There are no formal occasions in Autumn, and wearing white is not authorized after Labor Day, so all Army uniforms are equal.
+
Plus and minus signs
The plus and minus signs are mathematical symbols used to represent the notions of positive and negative as well as the operations of addition and subtraction. Their use has been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous...

 
·-·-· hey! CHAR-lie's AN-gels Call out to Charlie's Angels for help, their assistance is always a plus.
-
Hyphen
The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. It is often confused with dashes , which are longer and have different uses, and with the minus sign which is also longer...

 
-····- *DIP* ho-li-day-inn *DIP* After Dipping the room rates at his Holiday Inn once, the hotel owner dipped them again, after finding more ways to subtract overhead costs.
Underscore
The underscore [ _ ] is a character that originally appeared on the typewriter. Prior to the advent of word processing, the underscore character was the only method of underlining words...

 
··--·- bom-bay *DIP* POUND for POUND One should pay special attention to the Bombay markets; since dips in quantities there, can affect the worldwide commodities prices, pound for pound.
-·--· AU-tumn HOLE-IN-one! Autumn opened her golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players , using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area...

 game with a hole in one...
) -·--·- AU-tumn A-LOU-et-TUH ...and Autumn closed it with a birdie on the 18th hole.

Other Syllabic Mnemonics

Letter | Morse Code| Mnemonic
B
B
B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled bee, plural bees.-History:The letter B might have started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet...

 
-··· BE a good boy
C
C
Ĉ or ĉ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiceless postalveolar affricate , and is equivalent to the voiceless postalveolar affricate, , or the voiceless retroflex affricate,...

 
-·-· CO-ca CO-la
D
D
D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled dee, plural dees.- History :The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this...

 
-·· DOG did it
F
F
F is the sixth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff.-History:The origin of F is the Semitic letter vâv that represented the sound /v/, and originally probably represented either a "hook" or a "club"...

 
··-· get a HAIR-cut
or
for the FAIR-est
G
G
G is the seventh letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee.-History:The letter G was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of C to distinguish Latin voiced velar from voiceless...

 
--. GOO-GOL-plex (a 1 with a googol
Googol
A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros in decimal representation.The term was coined in 1938 by Milton Sirotta , nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, when he was nine years old...

 zeros)
H
H
H is the eighth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in both British and American English is aitch , plural aitches, though it is also pronounced haitch in some dialects .-History:...

 
···· hitting the hip
J
J
Ĵ or ĵ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar fricative , and is equivalent to the voiced postalveolar fricative, , or the voiced retroflex fricative, ....

 
·--- the-JU-LIE JAY
or
i WANT YOU, JONES
K
K
K is the eleventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay.-History and usage:...

 
-·- KAN-dy KID (candy kid)
L
L
Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Łacinka , Wilamowicean, Navajo, Dene Suline, Inupiaq, Zuni and Dogrib alphabets, and of several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language...

 
·-·· to 'ELL with it!
or
he LOST his lid
M
M
M is the thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled em.-History:The letter M derives its shape from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu . Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water. It is known that Semitic people working in Egypt c...

 
-- Mmmm-mmmm
N
N
N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en.- Usage :N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with is , which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages,...

 
NI -gel
O
O
O is the fifteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled o; the plural is oes, though this is rare.- History :...

 
--- O-RE-O
P
P
P is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee.-History:The Semitic Pê , as well as the Greek Π or π , and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet, all symbolized , a voiceless bilabial plosive.-Usage:In English and...

 
·--· a PIZ-ZA pie
Q
Q
Q is the seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue.- History :The Semitic sound value of Qôp was , a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones...

 
--·- PAY-DAY to-DAY
or
QUEUE OV-er HERE
or
HERE COMES the BRIDE (queen)
U
U
U is the twenty-first letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u; the plural is ues, though this is rare.-History:...

 
··- gid-dy UP
V
V
V is the twenty-second letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee.-The letter:The letter V ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details....

 
···- Beethoven's FIFTH (V'th)
W
W
W is the twenty-third letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u; the plural is double-ues, though this is rare.-History:...

 
·-- the WORLD WAR
X
X
X is the twenty-fourth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex, plural exes .-History:...

 
-··- X marks the SPOT

Character | Morse Code| Syllabic| Mnemonic
: ---··· HA-WA-II stan-dard time The clocks in Hawaii are always on standard time, and don't turn an hour ahead in the summer.
/
Slash (punctuation)
The American English slash is a punctuation mark. It is variously termed stroke , slash, virgule, diagonal, forward slash, right-leaning stroke, oblique dash, slant, separatrix, scratch comma, slaok, over, slak, or whack...

 
-··-· SHAVE and a HAIR-cut The barber slashed the price of a shave and a haircut at his shop.

(NOTE: also Fraction Bar and Division Sign)
·-··-· six-TY-six nine-TY-nine Quotation marks resemble a 66 at the beginning of a quote, and a 99 at the end of a quote.
·----· and THIS STUFF GOES TO me! An apostrophe may be used to denote ownership of property.
;
Semicolon
A semicolon is a conventional punctuation mark with several uses, mainly for pauses in sentences and breaks in lists. The Italian printer Aldus Manutius the Elder established the practice of using the semicolon mark to separate words of opposed meaning, and to indicate interdependent statements...

 
-·-·-· A-list, B-list, C-list A semicolon may be used to group ordered lists. in the same sentence.

Slavic languages


In the Czech language, the mnemonic device to remember Morse codes lies in remembering words that begin with each appropriate letter and has so called long vowel (i.e. á é í ó ú ý) for every dash and short vowel (a e i o u y) for every dot. Additionally, some other theme-related sets of words have been thought out as Czech folklore.
Letter | Morse Code| Czech word| Translation | Alternative (folklore
Folklore
Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions of that culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which...

)
| Translation
A
A
The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled a; the plural is aes, though this is rare.- History :...

 
·- akát acacia absťák abstinence symptoms
B
B
B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled bee, plural bees.-History:The letter B might have started as a pictogram of the floorplan of a house in Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet...

 
-··· blýskavice lightening storm blít až doma womit until at home
C
C
Ĉ or ĉ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiceless postalveolar affricate , and is equivalent to the voiceless postalveolar affricate, , or the voiceless retroflex affricate,...

 
-·-· cílovníci aiming sights cíl je výčep the target is the taproom
D
D
D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled dee, plural dees.- History :The Semitic letter Dâlet probably developed from the logogram for a fish or a door. There are various Egyptian hieroglyphs that might have inspired this...

 
-·· dálnice highway dám jedno I'll have one (beer)
E
E
E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. It is also the second vowel in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled e; the plural is ees, though this is rare...

 
· erb coat of arms ex one-sip-drinking
F
F
F is the sixth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff.-History:The origin of F is the Semitic letter vâv that represented the sound /v/, and originally probably represented either a "hook" or a "club"...

 
··-· Filipíny Philippines Fernet píše the Fernet's pungent
G
G
G is the seventh letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee.-History:The letter G was introduced in the Old Latin period as a variant of C to distinguish Latin voiced velar from voiceless...

 
--· Grónská zem the land of Greenland grónský rum rum of Greenland
H
H
H is the eighth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in both British and American English is aitch , plural aitches, though it is also pronounced haitch in some dialects .-History:...

 
···· holubice dove (female) hruškovice Pear brandy
Ch
CH
CH can mean:Business* Bemidji Airlines IATA code* Carolina Herrera, a fashion designer based in New York.Entertainment and sports* Channel...

 
---- chléb nám dává (he) gives us bread chvátám k pípám I rush to the faucets
I
I
I is the ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its English name is spelled i; the plural is ies, though this is rare.-History:...

 
·· ibis Ibis Iron Iron (window cleaning agent with alcohol content)
J
J
Ĵ or ĵ is a consonant in Esperanto orthography, representing a voiced postalveolar fricative , and is equivalent to the voiced postalveolar fricative, , or the voiced retroflex fricative, ....

 
·--- jasmín bílý white Jasmine Jabčák bílý White Apple brandy
K
K
K is the eleventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay.-History and usage:...

 
-·- království kingdom kýbl vín pot of wines
L
L
Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Łacinka , Wilamowicean, Navajo, Dene Suline, Inupiaq, Zuni and Dogrib alphabets, and of several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language...

 
·-·· lední hokej ice hockey likéreček little liquor
M
M
M is the thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled em.-History:The letter M derives its shape from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu . Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water. It is known that Semitic people working in Egypt c...

 
-- mává waving mží z píp it's sprinkling out of faucets
N
N
N is the fourteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en.- Usage :N represents the dental or alveolar nasal in virtually all languages that use the Latin alphabet. A common digraph with is , which represents a velar nasal in a variety of languages,...

 
národ nation návyk habit
O
O
O is the fifteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled o; the plural is oes, though this is rare.- History :...

 
--- ó náš pán oh, our lord ó můj líh oh, my alcohol
P
P
P is the sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee.-History:The Semitic Pê , as well as the Greek Π or π , and the Etruscan and Latin letters that developed from the former alphabet, all symbolized , a voiceless bilabial plosive.-Usage:In English and...

 
·--· papírníci paper-makers pivní tácek beer underpad
Q
Q
Q is the seventeenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue.- History :The Semitic sound value of Qôp was , a sound common to Semitic languages, but not found in English or most Indo-European ones...

 
--·- kvílí orkán wailing hurricane kvílím ožrán I wail drunked
R
R
R is the eighteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ar; its name in Hiberno-English is or .-History:...

 
·-· rarášek imp rumíček little rum
S
S
S is the nineteenth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ess, or usually es- when part of a compound word; the plural is esses.- Usage :...

 
··· sekera axe sud je tu the barrel's here
T
T
T is the twentieth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled tee. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in the English language.- History :...

 
- tón tone tea
U
U
U is the twenty-first letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u; the plural is ues, though this is rare.-History:...

 
··- učený erudite uchlastán fully loaded
V
V
V is the twenty-second letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee.-The letter:The letter V ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw, as do the modern letters F, U, W, and Y. See F for details....

 
···- vyvolený the chosen one vodka finská Finnish vodka
W
W
W is the twenty-third letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u; the plural is double-ues, though this is rare.-History:...

 
·-- waltrův vůz Walter's carriage whiskou plout to float through Whiskey
X
X
X is the twenty-fourth letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex, plural exes .-History:...

 
-··- Xénokratés Xenocrates k sýru burčák new half-fermented wine with cheese
Y
Y
The letter Y is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter in the basic modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled wye or occasionally wy, plural wyes.-History:...

 
-·-- Ýgar mává Ygar is waving ý, jsem zlámán ee, I'm a mess
Z
Z
Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-Name and pronunciation:In many dialects of English, the letter's name is zed, , reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta . In American English, its name is zee , deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal form...

--·· Zrádná žena perfidious woman zlískám se hned I get stoned quickly