counter for bags of something
Attached to numbers to count bagged items. Used with native Japanese numbers (ひと, ふた, み, etc.) or Sino-Japanese numbers (いち, に, さん, etc.), though native numbers are more common in everyday speech.
I bought two bags of sweets.
I carried three bags of rice.
本 is a general counter for long, cylindrical objects, not for bagged items.
Standard kanji spelling for the counter/suffix meaning 'bag(s) of'.
From the noun 袋 (ふくろ, 'bag'), used as a suffix/counter with the reading たい, likely derived from a historical compound or on-reading usage.
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