NATO Phonetic Alphabet

NATO Phonetic Alphabet 北约音标字母.

北约音标字母（英语：NATO phonetic alphabet），正式称为国际无线电通话拼写字母（英语：International radiotelephony spelling alphabet），是最常使用的拼写字母。常称作“语音字母”（phonetic alphabets）、字母解释法或是通讯代码.

When we use phone call we often have to tell something to other people using the English letters, for example you tell your friend an address, you might have to spell the address name, but English letter is not easy to be heard exactly such as you say “T” but your friend might heard as “D”, so we used to use other way like “T for Tango, D for Delta” so that your friend know the right letters.

The “T for Tango, D for Delta….” is from NATO Phonetic Alphabet.

There are 26 code words in the NATO phonetic alphabet are assigned to the 26 letters of the English alphabet in alphabetical order as follows: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu

So the following list is the most commonly used when you spell English letter when phone calling:

A Alpha
B Bravo
C Charlie
D Delta
E Echo
F Foxtrot
G Golf
H Hotel
I India
J Juliet
K Kilo
L Lima
M Mike
N November
O Oscar
P Papa
Q Quebec
R Romeo
S Sierra
T Tango
U Uniform
V Victor
W Whiskey
X X-ray
Y Yankee
Z Zulu