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Myanmar vs China Military Ranks

The Myanmar/ Burma Army has 20 ranks — 12 officer and 8 enlisted — from တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ up to ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ. Below: all 60 ranks across 3 branches (Army, Navy, Air Force), aligned tier by tier with their Chinese equivalents.

Branches
3
Ranks documented
60
Active personnel
201K

Army

Rank Ladder Highest first · 18 of 20 matched
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Army NATO code
Equivalent in
Officers
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army –
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army –
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-9 General China Army 陆军上将 (General) insignia 陆军上将 (General)
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-8 Lieutenant General China Army 陆军中将 (Lieutenant General) insignia 陆军中将 (Lieutenant General)
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ OF-7 Major General China Army 陆军少将 (Major General) insignia 陆军少将 (Major General)
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ OF-6 Brigadier General China Army 陆军大校 (Senior Colonel) insignia 陆军大校 (Senior Colonel)
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-5 Colonel China Army 陆军上校 (Colonel) insignia 陆军上校 (Colonel)
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel China Army 陆军中校 (Lieutenant Colonel) insignia 陆军中校 (Lieutenant Colonel)
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ OF-3 Major / Commandant China Army 陆军少校 (Major) insignia 陆军少校 (Major)
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant China Army 陆军上尉 (Captain) insignia 陆军上尉 (Captain)
Myanmar Army ဗိုလ် Builʻ insignia ဗိုလ် Builʻ OF-1 Lieutenant China Army 陆军中尉 (First Lieutenant) insignia 陆军中尉 (First Lieutenant) China Army 陆军少尉 (Second Lieutenant) insignia 陆军少尉 (Second Lieutenant)
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ OF-1 Lieutenant China Army 陆军中尉 (First Lieutenant) insignia 陆军中尉 (First Lieutenant) China Army 陆军少尉 (Second Lieutenant) insignia 陆军少尉 (Second Lieutenant)
Enlisted ranks
Myanmar Army အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-9 Sergeant Major China Army 陆军一级军士长 (First Class Sergeant Major) insignia 陆军一级军士长 (First Class Sergeant Major)
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-8 1st Sergeant China Army 陆军二级军士长 (Second Class Sergeant Major) insignia 陆军二级军士长 (Second Class Sergeant Major)
Myanmar Army တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-6 Staff Sergeant China Army 陆军一级上士 (First Class Master Sergeant) insignia 陆军一级上士 (First Class Master Sergeant)
Myanmar Army တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-5 Sergeant China Army 陆军二级上士 (Second Class Master Sergeant) insignia 陆军二级上士 (Second Class Master Sergeant)
Myanmar Army တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ insignia တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ OR-4 Corporal China Army 陆军中士 (Sergeant) insignia 陆军中士 (Sergeant)
Myanmar Army ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ insignia ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ OR-3 Private 1st Class China Army 陆军下士 (Corporal) insignia 陆军下士 (Corporal)
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ OR-2 Private China Army 陆军上等兵 (Private First Class) insignia 陆军上等兵 (Private First Class)
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ OR-1 Private China Army 陆军列兵 (Private) insignia 陆军列兵 (Private)

Air Force

Rank Ladder Highest first · 18 of 20 matched
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Air Force NATO code
Equivalent in
Officers
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army –
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-10 Marshal / General of the Army –
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-9 General China Air Force 空军上将 (General) insignia 空军上将 (General)
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ OF-8 Lieutenant General China Air Force 空军中将 (Lieutenant General) insignia 空军中将 (Lieutenant General)
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်ချုပ် Builʻkhyupʻ OF-7 Major General China Air Force 空军少将 (Major General) insignia 空军少将 (Major General)
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ OF-6 Brigadier General China Air Force 空军大校 (Senior Colonel) insignia 空军大校 (Senior Colonel)
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-5 Colonel China Air Force 空军上校 (Colonel) insignia 空军上校 (Colonel)
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ OF-4 Lieutenant Colonel China Air Force 空军中校 (Lieutenant Colonel) insignia 空军中校 (Lieutenant Colonel)
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ insignia ဗိုလ်မှူး Builʻmhūʺ OF-3 Major / Commandant China Air Force 空军少校 (Major) insignia 空军少校 (Major)
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ insignia ဗိုလ်ကြီး Builʻkrīʺ OF-2 Captain / 1st Lieutenant China Air Force 空军上尉 (Captain) insignia 空军上尉 (Captain)
Myanmar Air Force ဗိုလ် Builʻ insignia ဗိုလ် Builʻ OF-1 Lieutenant China Air Force 空军中尉 (First Lieutenant) insignia 空军中尉 (First Lieutenant) China Air Force 空军少尉 (Second Lieutenant) insignia 空军少尉 (Second Lieutenant)
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ insignia ဒုတိယဗိုလ် Dutiyabuilʻ OF-1 Lieutenant China Air Force 空军中尉 (First Lieutenant) insignia 空军中尉 (First Lieutenant) China Air Force 空军少尉 (Second Lieutenant) insignia 空军少尉 (Second Lieutenant)
Enlisted ranks
Myanmar Air Force အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia အရာခံဗိုလ် ' araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-9 Sergeant Major China Air Force 空军一级军士长 (Master sergeant first class) insignia 空军一级军士长 (Master sergeant first class)
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ insignia ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ OR-8 1st Sergeant China Air Force 空军二级军士长 (Master sergeant second class) insignia 空军二级军士长 (Master sergeant second class)
Myanmar Air Force တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-6 Staff Sergeant China Air Force 空军一级上士 (Technical sergeant) insignia 空军一级上士 (Technical sergeant)
Myanmar Air Force တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ insignia တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ OR-5 Sergeant China Air Force 空军二级上士 (Staff sergeant) insignia 空军二级上士 (Staff sergeant)
Myanmar Air Force တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ insignia တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ OR-4 Corporal China Air Force 空军中士 (Sergeant) insignia 空军中士 (Sergeant)
Myanmar Air Force ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ insignia ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ OR-3 Private 1st Class China Air Force 空军下士 (Corporal) insignia 空军下士 (Corporal)
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ OR-2 Private China Air Force 空军上等兵 (Airman First Class) insignia 空军上等兵 (Airman First Class)
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ OR-1 Private China Air Force 空军列兵 (Airman) insignia 空军列兵 (Airman)

Overview

  • Myanmar Army (တပ်မတော်(ကြည်း)): Conducts land-based military operations, infantry warfare, and counter-insurgency campaigns. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, the branch is organized into regional military commands and light infantry divisions. It utilizes armored, artillery, and engineer regiments to engage armed opposition groups across the country.
  • Myanmar Navy (တပ်မတော်(ရေ)): Executes maritime defense, coastal patrol, and riverine operations along the coastline and inland waterways. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, it operates a fleet of frigates, corvettes, fast attack craft, and diesel-electric submarines. The branch manages naval bases across regional commands and oversees the Navy Special Operations Task Force.
  • Myanmar Air Force (တပ်မတော်(လေ)): Conducts aerial warfare, close air support, transport, and air reconnaissance operations. Headquartered in Naypyidaw, it operates fighter aircraft, ground-attack jets, transport planes, and a helicopter fleet. The branch coordinates with ground forces through the Myanmar Integrated Air Defence System.
  • Myanmar Coast Guard (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ကမ်းခြေစောင့်တပ်ဖွဲ့): Performs maritime law enforcement, search and rescue, and environmental protection within territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone. Governed by the 2025 Myanmar Coast Guard Law, the force is headquartered in Thanlyin, operates under the Ministry of Defence, and is overseen by the Navy. It utilizes fast patrol vessels to combat piracy, illegal trafficking, and unauthorized fishing.
Myanmar Military
Myanmar military personnel in dress uniforms
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