MorsecodePod?

Hey bazza, thank you for clearing up a mystery which had been bugging me! So Chinese morse code is based on an assigned 4-digit code for each one of up to 7,000 characters? Goodness.

I've watched -- and re-watched -- all three "Infernal Affairs" movies, and upon each viewing I just couldn't help wondering about the morse code, which is such a key element of the plot. But I didn't find it on wiki because I was too dense to look up Chinese "telegraph code" (as opposed to "morse").

Thanks!

changye

June 11, 2008, 10:58 PM

Hi Bazza,

Very educational thread. If I missed opportunity to look into here today, I would never know how to send morse code in Chinese in the rest of my life. By the way, one of my Chinese-Japanese dictionaries, published in 1992, shows you a telegraphic code (电码) for every Character. But I must say it has had no significance to me UNTIL　ＴＨＩＳ　ＭＯＲＮＩＮＧ！I believe your dictionaries don't list such already-useless code numbers. I'd like to get a new dictionary!

changye

June 11, 2008, 11:14 PM

Anyway, it seems to be impossible to send (or decode) morse-coded Chinese quickly, because you need to find 4-digit code numbers for characters beforehand. Sending pinyin Chinese (with tone marks 1,2,3,4) would be much faster, though there is no guarantee that a recipient would understand them 100% precisely.

bazza

June 12, 2008, 12:21 AM

If your interested in learning morse code I found this free program: http://justlearnmorsecode.com/

You listen to the tones and type the letters and it gives you your accuracy after 5 mins, it starts with 2 characters and when you can do it with 90% accuracy you add another letter.

sarahjs

July 12, 2008, 09:46 PM

Auntie, the 'Infernal Affairs' Flims are amazing!! Tony Leung is very HOT. I love the third film so much. Never really put much thought in to the morse code that they have films.

hitokiri6993

July 13, 2008, 02:14 PM

Infernal Affairs? Was that the detective movie where Andy Lau starred in?

RJ

July 13, 2008, 03:06 PM

Bazza, recently the question of morse code in Chinese occured to me as well, and I looked it up. I was amazed to see that they indeed do have a system. I thought of you at the time and intended to send you the link but it must have slipped my mind. It just seemed like something you would be interested in. I doubt anyone would learn the code - you would have to use a translation chart after recieving the message. I have not seen infernal affairs. Will have to check it out.