発汗

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 発汗(はっかん) means perspiration or the process of sweating.
• Basic usage: It appears in descriptions of sweating during exercise or the amount of perspiration.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• The everyday expression 汗をかく
  • 汗をかく is the everyday way to say that someone sweats. 発汗 treats the same process as a relatively technical noun, combining with verbs as in 発汗を促す.