| 首 |
shǒu yǎn | maiden stage role / first performance / first public showing |
| 首 |
shǒu | head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc |
| 演 |
yǎn | to perform (a play etc); to stage (a show) / (bound form) to develop; to play out; to carry out (a task) |