# Military ranks of Myanmar

The Military ranks of Myanmar are the military insignia used by the Myanmar Armed Forces, its auxiliary services, some government departments and some civilian organizations.
All the government employees are called "civil service personnel" (Burmese: နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်း, romanized: nuiṅʻ ṅaṃ vanʻthamʻʺ, lit. 'State's employee'). Their ranks and appointments are grouped into two categories:
* Officer or gazetted officer , whose promotion and posting are recorded in the Gazette of Myanmar.
* Staff or Other Ranks ranks below the gazetted officers.
Personnels of the Armed Forces and the Police Force are included in the civil service personnels but the rules of civil service personnels are not applied to them because of the special nature of their duties.
The rank insignia of Myanmar Armed Forces is the basic form for all other rank insignia in Myanmar.
* Some departments/organizations use the same insignia as that of the Armed Forces but with different colour, (example: rank insignia of Myanmar Police Force use silver stars instead of golden ones).
* Some use the same style as that of the Armed Forces but with organization's symbol in place of military stars (example: rank insignia of Myanmar Red Cross Society use red crosses in place of rank stars).
* Those departments that don't use the military-like uniform system, use the pin badges with rank insignia (example: rank insignia of General Administration Department).

## Myanmar Armed Forces

All three branches of Myanmar Armed Forces use the same rank system and insignia. While the titles are the same across all branches in Burmese, English translations are different depending on the branch.

### Officers

In Myanmar Armed Forces, the officer cadets who have graduated from Defense Services Academies (DSA, DSMA, DSTA, etc.) and Officer Training Schools (OTS) are directly commissioned as gazetted officers with the rank of Second Lieutenant or Sub-lieutenant.
| Rank group | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers |
| Burmese | ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး | ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး | ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး/ဒုဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချူပ်ကြီး/ဒုဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဗိုလ်ချုပ် | ဗိုလ်ချုပ် | ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် | ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် | ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး | ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး/ဒုဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး/ဒုဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး | ဗိုလ်မှူး | ဗိုလ်မှူး | ဗိုလ်ကြီး | ဗိုလ်ကြီး | ဗိုလ် | ဗိုလ် | ဗိုလ် | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်/ဒုဗိုလ် | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်/ဒုဗိုလ် | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်/ဒုဗိုလ် |
| ALA-LC | Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ | Builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ | Dutiya builʻkhyupʻmhūʺkrīʺ | Builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ | Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ | Dutiya builʻkhyupʻkrīʺ | Builʻkhyupʻ | Builʻkhyupʻ | Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ | Builʻmhūʺkhyupʻ | Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ | Builʻmhūʺkrīʺ | Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ | Dutiya builʻmhūʺkrīʺ | Builʻmhūʺ | Builʻmhūʺ | Builʻkrīʺ | Builʻkrīʺ | Builʻ | Builʻ | Builʻ | Dutiyabuilʻ | Dutiyabuilʻ | Dutiyabuilʻ |
| Myanmar Armed Forces | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Full dress | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Army casual uniform | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Navy casual uniform | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Air Force casual uniform | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Army and air force translation | Senior general | Senior general | Vice-senior general | General | Lieutenant general | Lieutenant general | Major general | Major general | Brigadier general | Brigadier general | Colonel | Colonel | Lieutenant colonel | Lieutenant colonel | Major | Major | Captain | Captain | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Second lieutenant | Second lieutenant | Second lieutenant |
| Navy translation | Senior admiral | Senior admiral | Vice-senior admiral | Admiral | Vice admiral | Vice admiral | Rear admiral | Rear admiral | Commodore | Commodore | Captain | Captain | Commander | Commander | Lieutenant commander | Lieutenant commander | Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Lieutenant (junior grade) | Lieutenant (junior grade) | Lieutenant (junior grade) | Sub-lieutenant | Sub-lieutenant | Sub-lieutenant |

### Student officer ranks

| Rank group | Student officer |
| Burmese | ဗိုလ်လောင်း |
| ALA-LC | bolāung |
| Myanmar Armed Forces | |
| Translation | Officer cadet |

#### Special insignia of general/flag officers

In addition the general/flag officers have additional special insignia.
| Burmese title | Burmese title | ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး | ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဒုတိယဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဗိုလ်ချုပ် | ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် |
| English title | English title | Senior general | Vice-senior general | General/ Admiral | Lieutenant general/ Vice admiral | Major general/ Rear admiral | Brigadier general/ Commodore |
| Rank medal worn on left chest | Rank medal worn on left chest | | | | | | |
| Rank stars on name plate of car | Rank stars on name plate of car | | | | | | |

### Other ranks

In Myanmar Armed Forces, Lance corporals and Corporals are commonly referred to as Saya (ဆရာ, lit. 'teacher') by both enlisted staffs and officers. Warrant officers (Class 1 and Class 2) are referred to as Bo Lay (ဗိုလ်လေး, lit. 'little lieutenant'), Sergeant and Staff Sergeant are referred to as Saya Gyi. These unofficial ranks are in used throughout the daily life of all branches of Myanmar Armed Forces. Insignia-wearing OR within the Myanmar Armed Forces are usually seasoned veteran soldiers with wide-ranging experience of the battlefield, thus both officers and enlisted men refer to them as "teacher" out of respect as well as affection.
| Rank group | Other Ranks (Insignia Wearing) | Other Ranks (Insignia Wearing) | Other Ranks (Insignia Wearing) | Other Ranks (Insignia Wearing) | Other Ranks (Insignia Wearing) | Other Ranks (Insignia Wearing) | Other Ranks (No Insignia) | Other Ranks (No Insignia) |
| Burmese | အရာခံဗိုလ် | ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ်/ဒုအရာခံဗိုလ် | တပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး/ အုပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး | တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး/ တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး (စာရေး) | တပ်ကြပ် | ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ်/ဒုတပ်ကြပ် | တပ်သား | တပ်သားသစ် |
| ALA-LC | 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ | dautaiya 'araākhaṃ bauilaʻ | tapaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ/ aupaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ | tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ/ tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ caā raeʺ | tapaʻ karpaʻ | dautai yatapaʻ karpaʻ | tapaʻ saāʺ | tapaʻ saāʺ |
| Myanmar Armed Forces | | | | | | | No insignia | No insignia |
| Army translation | Warrant officer class 1 | Warrant officer class 2 | Staff Sergeant (aka Company Quartermaster Sergeant) | Sergeant/ Sergeant (Clerk) | Corporal | Lance corporal | Private | Recruit |
| Navy translation | Warrant officer class 1 | Warrant officer class 2 | Chief petty officer | Petty officer/ Petty Officer (clerk) | Leading seaman | Acting leading | Able-body | Recruit |
| Air force translation | Warrant officer class 1 | Warrant officer class 2 | Flight sergeant | Sergeant/ Sergeant (clerk) | Corporal | Lance corporal | Private | Recruit |

## Myanmar Police Force

Myanmar Police Force is an independent department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, one of the ministries under administration of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services. The rank insignia of Myanmar Police Force are the insignia of Myanmar Armed Forces with different colours and with different titles.

### Officers

In the Myanmar Police Force, a person of the rank of Police second lieutenant and above is called an officer; while an officer of the rank of Police Captain and above is called a gazetted officer.
| Rank group | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers |
| Burmese | ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဒုတိယရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဒုတိယရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ် | ရဲဗိုလ်ချုပ် | ရဲမှူးချုပ် | ရဲမှူးချုပ် | ရဲမှူးကြီး | ရဲမှူးကြီး | ဒုတိယရဲမှူးကြီး | ဒုတိယရဲမှူးကြီး | ရဲမှူး | ရဲမှူး | ဒုတိယရဲမှူး | ဒုတိယရဲမှူး | ရဲအုပ် | ရဲအုပ် | ရဲအုပ် | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ် | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ် | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ် | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း | ဒုတိယရဲအုပ်လောင်း |
| ALA-LC | raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ krīʺ | raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ krīʺ | raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ krīʺ | raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ krīʺ | dautaiya raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ krīʺ | dautaiya raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ krīʺ | raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ | raaibauilaʻ khayupaʻ | raaimahūʺ khayupaʻ | raaimahūʺ khayupaʻ | raaimahūʺ karī | raaimahūʺ karī | dautaiya raaimahūʺ karī | dautaiya raaimahūʺ karī | raaimahūʺ | raaimahūʺ | dautaiya raaimahūʺ | dautaiya raaimahūʺ | raai 'aupaʻ | raai 'aupaʻ | raai 'aupaʻ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ | dautaiya raai 'aupaʻ laoṅaʻʺ |
| Myanmar Police Force | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Translation | Police general | Police general | Police general | Police general | Police lieutenant general | Police lieutenant general | Police major general | Police major general | Police brigadier general | Police brigadier general | Police colonel | Police colonel | Police lieutenant colonel | Police lieutenant colonel | Police major | Police major | Police captain | Police captain | Police lieutenant | Police lieutenant | Police lieutenant | Police second lieutenant | Police second lieutenant | Police second lieutenant | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet | Police officer cadet |

### Other ranks

| Rank group | Insignia-wearing staffs | Insignia-wearing staffs | Insignia-wearing staffs | Insignia-wearing staffs | Enlisted staffs | Enlisted staffs |
| Burmese | ရဲအရာခံဗိုလ် | ရဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး | ရဲတပ်ကြပ် | ဒုတိယရဲတပ်ကြပ် | ရဲတပ်သား | ရဲတပ်သားသစ် |
| ALA-LC | Raai 'araā khaṃ bauilaʻ | Raai tapaʻ karpaʻ krīʺ | Raai tapaʻ karpaʻ | Dautaiya raai tapaʻ karpaʻ | Raai tapaʻ saāʺ | Raai tapaʻ saāʺ sacaʻ |
| Myanmar Police Force | | | | | No insignia | No insignia |
| Translation | Police warrant officer | Police sergeant | Police corporal | Police lance corporal | Police private | Police recruit |

## Prisons Department

Prisons Department is a department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, one of the ministries under administration of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services. The rank insignia of its officers are the same as that of Myanmar Police Force but with different titles.

### Officers

| Rank group | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | General / flag officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Senior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers | Junior officers |
| Burmese | ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် | ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် | ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် | ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် | ဒုတိယညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် | ဒုတိယညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ် | ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး | ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး | ဒုတိယညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး | ဒုတိယညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး | လက်ထောက်ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး | လက်ထောက်ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး | ဦးစီးအရာရှိ (ပထမတန်း) | ဦးစီးအရာရှိ (ပထမတန်း) | ဦးစီးအရာရှိ (ဒုတိယတန်း) | ဦးစီးအရာရှိ (ဒုတိယတန်း) | ဦးစီးအရာရှိ (တတိယတန်း) | ဦးစီးအရာရှိ (တတိယတန်း) | ထောင်မှူးကြီး/ ဒုတိယကြီးကြပ်ရေးမှူး | ထောင်မှူးကြီး/ ဒုတိယကြီးကြပ်ရေးမှူး | ထောင်မှူးကြီး/ ဒုတိယကြီးကြပ်ရေးမှူး | ထောင်မှူး/ လက်ထောက်ကြီးကြပ်ရေးမှူး | ထောင်မှူး/ လက်ထောက်ကြီးကြပ်ရေးမှူး | ထောင်မှူး/ လက်ထောက်ကြီးကြပ်ရေးမှူး |
| ALA-LC | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Full insignia | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Translation | Director general | Director general | Director general | Director general | Deputy director general | Deputy director general | Director | Director | Deputy director | Deputy director | Assistant director | Assistant director | Staff officer (first class) | Staff officer (first class) | Staff officer (second class) | Staff officer (second class) | Staff officer (third class) | Staff officer (third class) | Chief jailor/ Deputy supervisor | Chief jailor/ Deputy supervisor | Chief jailor/ Deputy supervisor | Jailor/ Assistant supervisor | Jailor/ Assistant supervisor | Jailor/ Assistant supervisor |

### Other ranks

| Rank group | Insignia-wearing staffs | Insignia-wearing staffs | Insignia-wearing staffs | Insignia-wearing staffs | Insignia-wearing staffs | Enlisted staffs | Enlisted staffs |
| Burmese | လက်ထောက်ထောင်မှူး(၂)/ လက်ထောက်ကြီးကြပ်ရေးမှူး | လက်ထောက်ထောင်မှူး(၁)/ ဒုတိယလက်ထောက်ကြီးကြပ်ရေးမှူး | အကျဉ်းထောင်တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး | အကျဉ်းထောင်တပ်ကြပ် | အကျဉ်းထောင်ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် | အကျဉ်းထောင်တပ်သား | အကျဉ်းထောင်တပ်သားသစ် |
| ALA-LC | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | No insignia | No insignia |
| Translation | Assistant jailor (2)/ Assistant supervisor | Assistant jailor (1)/ Deputy assistant supervisor | Prison sergeant | Prison corporal | Prison lance corporal | Prison private | Prison recruit |

## General Administration Department

General Administration Department is a department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, one of the ministries under administration of Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services. As its uniform is not the military style, pin badges are used to show ranks.

### Officers

| Rank group | | | | | | | |
| Burmese | ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ်/ အမြဲတမ်းအတွင်းဝန် | ဒုတိယညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူးချုပ်/ တိုင်းအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူး | ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး/ ခရိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူး | ဒုတိယညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး/ ဒုတိယခရိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူး | လက်ထောက်ညွှန်ကြားရေးမှူး/ မြို့နယ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူး | ဦးစီးအရာရှိ/ ဒုတိယမြို့နယ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးမှူး | ဒုတိယဦးစီးမှူး/ စီမံ ၁ |
| ALA-LC | | | | | | | |
| Rank symbol | | | | | | | |
| Pin badge | | | | | | | |
| Translation | Director general/ Permanent secretary | Deputy director general/ Divisional administrator | Director/ District administrator | Deputy director/ Deputy district administrator | Assistant director/ Township administrator | Staff officer/ Deputy township administrator | Deputy chief officer/ Manager (1) |

### Staffs

| Rank group | Staffs | Staffs | Staffs | Staffs | Staffs |
| Burmese | ရုံးအုပ် | ဌာနခွဲစာရေး | အကြီးတန်းစာရေး | အငယ်တန်းစာရေး | ရုံးအကူ/ စာပို့/ ယာဉ်မောင်း |
| ALA-LC | | | | | |
| Rank symbol | | | | | |
| Pin badge | | | | | |
| Translation | Superintendent | Branch clerk | Upper divisional clerk | Lower divisional clerk | Office factotum/ Mailman/ Driver |