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China vs Myanmar Military Ranks
The Chinese Army has 19 ranks — 10 officer and 9 enlisted — from 陆军列兵 (Private) up to 陆军上将 (General). Below: all 57 ranks across 3 branches (Army, Navy, Air Force), aligned tier by tier with their Myanmar/ Burma equivalents.
Branches
3
Ranks documented
57
Active personnel
2M
Army
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 18 of 19 matched
| 🇨🇳 China · Army | NATO code |
Equivalent in
|
|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
陆军上将 (General)
|
OF-9 General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
陆军中将 (Lieutenant General)
|
OF-8 Lieutenant General |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
陆军少将 (Major General)
|
OF-7 Major General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
|
陆军大校 (Senior Colonel)
|
OF-6 Brigadier General |
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
|
陆军上校 (Colonel)
|
OF-5 Colonel |
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
陆军中校 (Lieutenant Colonel)
|
OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
陆军少校 (Major)
|
OF-3 Major / Commandant |
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
|
陆军上尉 (Captain)
|
OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
|
陆军中尉 (First Lieutenant)
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
陆军少尉 (Second Lieutenant)
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
| Enlisted ranks | ||
陆军一级军士长 (First Class Sergeant Major)
|
OR-9 Sergeant Major |
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
陆军二级军士长 (Second Class Sergeant Major)
|
OR-8 1st Sergeant |
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
陆军三级军士长 (Third Class Sergeant Major)
|
OR-7 Sergeant 1st Class | – |
陆军一级上士 (First Class Master Sergeant)
|
OR-6 Staff Sergeant |
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
陆军二级上士 (Second Class Master Sergeant)
|
OR-5 Sergeant |
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
陆军中士 (Sergeant)
|
OR-4 Corporal |
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
|
陆军下士 (Corporal)
|
OR-3 Private 1st Class |
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
|
陆军上等兵 (Private First Class)
|
OR-2 Private | တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
陆军列兵 (Private)
|
OR-1 Private | တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ |
Navy
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 18 of 19 matched
| 🇨🇳 China · Navy | NATO code |
Equivalent in
|
|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
海军上将 (Admiral)
|
OF-9 General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
海军中将 (Vice Admiral)
|
OF-8 Lieutenant General |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
海军少将 (Rear Admiral)
|
OF-7 Major General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
|
海军大校 (Senior Captain)
|
OF-6 Brigadier General |
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
|
海军上校 (Captain)
|
OF-5 Colonel |
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
海军中校 (Commander)
|
OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
海军少校 (Lieutenant Commander)
|
OF-3 Major / Commandant |
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
|
海军上尉 (Lieutenant)
|
OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
|
海军中尉 (Sub-Lieutenant)
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
海军少尉 (Ensign)
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
| Enlisted ranks | ||
海军一级军士长 (First Class Sergeant Major)
|
OR-9 Sergeant Major |
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
海军二级军士长 (Second Class Sergeant Major)
|
OR-8 1st Sergeant |
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
海军三级军士长 (Third Class Sergeant Major)
|
OR-7 Sergeant 1st Class | – |
海军一级上士 (First Class Master Sergeant)
|
OR-6 Staff Sergeant |
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
海军二级上士 (Second Class Master Sergeant)
|
OR-5 Sergeant |
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
海军中士 (Sergeant)
|
OR-4 Corporal |
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
|
海军下士 (Corporal)
|
OR-3 Private 1st Class |
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
|
海军上等兵 (Seaman First Class)
|
OR-2 Private | တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
| 海军列兵 (Seaman Recruit) | OR-1 Private | တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ |
Air Force
Rank Ladder
Highest first · 18 of 19 matched
| 🇨🇳 China · Air Force | NATO code |
Equivalent in
|
|---|---|---|
| Officers | ||
空军上将 (General)
|
OF-9 General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
空军中将 (Lieutenant General)
|
OF-8 Lieutenant General |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ
|
空军少将 (Major General)
|
OF-7 Major General |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ
|
空军大校 (Senior Colonel)
|
OF-6 Brigadier General |
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ
|
空军上校 (Colonel)
|
OF-5 Colonel |
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
空军中校 (Lieutenant Colonel)
|
OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel |
ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ
|
空军少校 (Major)
|
OF-3 Major / Commandant |
ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ
|
空军上尉 (Captain)
|
OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ
|
空军中尉 (First Lieutenant)
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
空军少尉 (Second Lieutenant)
|
OF-1 Lieutenant |
ဗိုလ် Builʻ
ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ
|
| Enlisted ranks | ||
空军一级军士长 (Master sergeant first class)
|
OR-9 Sergeant Major |
အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
空军二级军士长 (Master sergeant second class)
|
OR-8 1st Sergeant |
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ
|
空军三级军士长 (Master sergeant third class)
|
OR-7 Sergeant 1st Class | – |
空军一级上士 (Technical sergeant)
|
OR-6 Staff Sergeant |
တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
空军二级上士 (Staff sergeant)
|
OR-5 Sergeant |
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ
|
空军中士 (Sergeant)
|
OR-4 Corporal |
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ
|
空军下士 (Corporal)
|
OR-3 Private 1st Class |
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ
|
空军上等兵 (Airman First Class)
|
OR-2 Private | တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
空军列兵 (Airman)
|
OR-1 Private | တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ |
Overview
The armed forces of China, known as the "People's Liberation Army" (PLA), are among the largest and most powerful military forces in the world. The PLA consists of several branches, each with specific roles and responsibilities:
- People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF): The PLAGF is responsible for land-based military operations. It includes infantry, armored units, artillery, and support units. It plays a crucial role in national defense and territorial integrity.
- People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN): The PLAN focuses on maritime defense and security, operating a variety of vessels, including aircraft carriers, submarines, surface ships, and patrol boats. It is responsible for safeguarding China's extensive coastline and maritime interests in the South China Sea and beyond.
- People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF): The PLAAF is responsible for aerial defense and operations. It operates fighter aircraft, transport planes, and helicopters, ensuring air superiority and national defense.
- People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF): The PLARF oversees China's missile forces, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), which form a critical part of China's nuclear deterrent.
- People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force (PLASSF): The PLASSF focuses on electronic warfare, cyber operations, and space-based capabilities, providing support for the PLA's modern warfare needs.
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