Chinese symbol for “premiere”
首映
shǒu yìng
to premiere (a movie or TV show); premiere (of a movie); first-run (movie); to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for premiere is 首映 (shǒu yìng), defined as: to premiere (a movie or TV show); premiere (of a movie); first-run (movie); to greet (the eye) before anything else (e.g. when entering a room).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 首映.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 首先 | shǒu xiān | first of all; in the first place |
| 首次 | shǒu cì | first; first time |
| 首都 | shǒu dū | capital (city); 个 (gè) |
| 首页 (首頁) | shǒu yè | home page (of a website); title page |
| 首相 | shǒu xiàng | prime minister (of Japan or UK etc) |
| 首席 | shǒu xí | seat of honor; chief (representative, correspondent etc) |
| 反映 | fǎn yìng | to mirror; to reflect |
| 上映 | shàng yìng | to screen; to show (a movie) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “premiere”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.