Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Taiwan’s stock market has overtaken Canada’s to become the world’s sixth-largest. Among companies in Taiwan, TSMC accounts for nearly 45% of the Taiwan Stock Exchange’s total market capitalisation. As people in Taiwan are making a fortune with stocks, this week, we’ll learn some related terms and an idiom in Tâi-gí.

●Words to Know:

1. 買股票 bé-kóo-phiò (v.) to buy stocks

2. 股東 kóo-tong (n.) stockholder

3. 交割 kau-kuah (v.) settlement (to exchange stocks and money)

4. 趁錢 thàn-tsînn (v.) to make money

5. 了錢 liáu-tsînn (v.) to lose money

●Idiom of the week:

食緊挵破碗。

Tsia̍h-kín lòng-phuà uánn.

(Eating in a hurry causes you to break the bowl.)