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Military Rank Equivalence

Pick two armed forces and line their rank ladders up on the NATO OF/OR scale — insignia, local titles and the equivalent each one maps to.

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🇲🇲 Myanmar
20 ranks
🇨🇳 China
19 ranks
Matching tiers
17
Unmatched tiers
2

Myanmar Army vs China Army

Rank Ladder Highest first
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Army NATO equivalent China · Army 🇨🇳
Officers
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army No equivalent
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-9 General 陆军上将 (General) China Army 陆军上将 (General) insignia
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-8 Lieutenant General 陆军中将 (Lieutenant General) China Army 陆军中将 (Lieutenant General) insignia
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ OF-7 Major General 陆军少将 (Major General) China Army 陆军少将 (Major General) insignia
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ OF-6 Brigadier General 陆军大校 (Senior Colonel) China Army 陆军大校 (Senior Colonel) insignia
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-5 Colonel 陆军上校 (Colonel) China Army 陆军上校 (Colonel) insignia
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel 陆军中校 (Lieutenant Colonel) China Army 陆军中校 (Lieutenant Colonel) insignia
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ OF-3 Major / Commandant 陆军少校 (Major) China Army 陆军少校 (Major) insignia
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant 陆军上尉 (Captain) China Army 陆军上尉 (Captain) insignia
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ် Builʻ insignia ဗိုလ် Builʻ Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ OF-1 Lieutenant 陆军中尉 (First Lieutenant) China Army 陆军中尉 (First Lieutenant) insignia 陆军少尉 (Second Lieutenant) China Army 陆军少尉 (Second Lieutenant) insignia
Enlisted ranks
Myanmar Army အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-9 Sergeant Major 陆军一级军士长 (First Class Sergeant Major) China Army 陆军一级军士长 (First Class Sergeant Major) insignia
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-8 1st Sergeant 陆军二级军士长 (Second Class Sergeant Major) China Army 陆军二级军士长 (Second Class Sergeant Major) insignia
No equivalent OR-7 Sergeant 1st Class 陆军三级军士长 (Third Class Sergeant Major) China Army 陆军三级军士长 (Third Class Sergeant Major) insignia
Myanmar Army တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-6 Staff Sergeant 陆军一级上士 (First Class Master Sergeant) China Army 陆军一级上士 (First Class Master Sergeant) insignia
Myanmar Army တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-5 Sergeant 陆军二级上士 (Second Class Master Sergeant) China Army 陆军二级上士 (Second Class Master Sergeant) insignia
Myanmar Army တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ insignia တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ OR-4 Corporal 陆军中士 (Sergeant) China Army 陆军中士 (Sergeant) insignia
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ insignia ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ OR-3 Private 1st Class 陆军下士 (Corporal) China Army 陆军下士 (Corporal) insignia
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ OR-2 Private 陆军上等兵 (Private First Class) China Army 陆军上等兵 (Private First Class) insignia
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ OR-1 Private 陆军列兵 (Private) China Army 陆军列兵 (Private) insignia

Tiers neither force uses are hidden. An OF/OR code held by only one of the two is kept and marked — a missing tier is itself a difference in how the two hierarchies are built.

Rank Structures on File

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