Navy ranks and insignia of Myanmar
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Officers serving in the Myanmar Navy are assigned to ranks. There are ten ranks of Commissioned officers, from admiral down to ensign. As for non-commissioned officers, there are six ranks from warrant officer down to able seaman. The ranks are distinguished on uniforms by insignia worn on dark blue shoulder boards.
Commissioned officers
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| ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး bogyok hmūgyī |
ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်မှူးကြီး dụtịyạ bogyok hmūgyī |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး bogyok kyī |
ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး dụtịyạ bogyok kyī |
ဗိုလ်ချုပ် bogyok |
ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် bohmūgyok |
ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး bohmūgyī |
ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး dụtịyạ bohmūgyī |
ဗိုလ်မှူး bohmū |
ဗိုလ်ကြီး bogyī |
ဗိုလ် bo |
ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ် dụtịyạ bo |
ဗိုလ်လောင်း bolāung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Myanmar title | ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး | ဗိုလ်ချုပ် | ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် | ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး | ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး | ဗိုလ်မှူး | ဗိုလ်ကြီး | ဗိုလ် | ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ် | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abbreviation | ဗခက | ဒုဗခက | ဗခ | ဗမခ | ဗမက | ဒုဗမက | ဗမ | ဗက | ဗ | ဒုဗ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Non-Commissioned Officers are referred to as Saya, meaning Teacher, by both seamen and officers. For example, Warrant Officers, Regimental Sergeant Majors and Staff Sergeants are referred to as Sayagyi, literally meaning "Old Teacher", Sergeant are referred to as Saya and Corporal/Lance Corporal as Sayalay. These unofficial ranks are used throughout the daily life of all branches. Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) within the Navy are usually seasoned veteran naval ratings with years of service and experience. Thus both Officers and ratings refer to them as "teacher" out of respect.
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| အရာခံဗိုလ် ’araākhaṃ bauilaʻ |
ဒုတိယအရာခံဗိုလ် dautaiya ’araākhaṃ bauilaʻ |
အုပ်ခွဲတပ်ကြပ်ကြီး aupaʻ khavai tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ |
တပ်ကြပ်ကြီး tapaʻ karpaʻ karīʺ |
တပ်ကြပ် tapaʻ karpaʻ |
ဒုတိယတပ်ကြပ် dautaiya tapaʻ karpaʻ |
တပ်သား tapaʻ saāʺ |
တပ်သားသစ် tapaʻ saāʺ sacaʻ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||