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quire
On-Yomi: チョウ
Koohii stories:
1) [Katsuo] 6-10-2007(55): The fortune teller tells me that in the future I will have my own quire. "Is that choir as in 'group of singers', or quire as in 'sheets of paper'?" I ask. She can't tell because her crystal ball is too misty, so I rush to the bathroom, grab a towel, and use it to wipe the crystal ball. Turns out to be quire as in 'sheets of paper', of course.
2) [kusterdu] 20-9-2008(37): (25 sheets of paper) – the fortune teller orders a quire of paper but receives a quire of towels. She calls to complain, but customer service tells her, "Why didn't you see it coming?".
3) [astridtops] 11-11-2006(5): A quire in English means a set of 24 sheets of paper. In Japanese, it means 25 sheets. Well, rumor has it this is because on the 24 sheets needs to a towel (the 25th sheet), to ward off evil spirits, according to a famous fortuneteller.
4) [Elphalpo] 2-8-2010(4): They put a towel over the fortune teller's head and had her guess how many pieces of paper were in each quire in front of her. "How many in this quire of rice paper?" "Twenty." Amazing! "How many in this quire of nori?" "Ten." Wow! - (Note: "Quire" means a collection of 24 or 25 sheets of paper, but this kanji is actually used as a counter for bundles of several types of paper-like objects, and the amount in one bundle differs for each object (1 quire of rice paper = 20 sheets, nori = 10 sheets, etc.)).
5) [Boy.pockets] 24-1-2011(2): If there is a towel and written on it is "quire", then you don't need a fortune teller to tell you that there are 25 sheets of paper in it.